Religion
Epigram 58: An ever-living lamp I shine
Translated by H. W. Tytler (1793; Bohn 1856) · From Works of Callimachus (Tytler, 1793)
Religion
An ever-living lamp I shine
To Canopista, power divine ;
With twenty matches I appear,
And Crita’s daughter plac’d me here,
To pay what for her son she ow’d,
What, for Appelles, late she
And when my light you first espy,
You’d swear the stars had left the sky.
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Callimachus. “Epigram 58: An ever-living lamp I shine.” Translated by H. W. Tytler. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/152/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram 58: An ever-living lamp I shine.” Translated by H. W. Tytler. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/152/.
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