Arts & Sciences
Epigram X (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Arts & Sciences
Short is the speech, Dionysus, of the successful poet: “Won,” says he, at most. But if thou breathe not favourably and one ask, “What luck?” “’Tis a hard business,” he says. Be these the words of him who broods injustice; but mine, O Lord, the monosyllable!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram X (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/164/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram X (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/164/.
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