Arts & Sciences
Epigram VII (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Arts & Sciences
I am the work of the Samian, who once received the divine singer in his house; and I celebrate the sufferings of Eurytus and of fair-haired Ioleia; but I am called the writing of Homer. Dear Zeus, for Creophylus this is a great thing.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram VII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/161/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram VII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/161/.
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