Death & Dying
Epigram XVI (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Who knows aright to-morrow’s fortune? When even thee, Charmis, whom we saw with our own eyes yesterday, next day we laid in the grave with tears. Than that thy father Diophon hath seen nothing more painful.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XVI (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/170/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XVI (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/170/.
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