Death & Dying
Epigram XXIV (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Astacides, the Cretan, the goat-herd, a nymph carried off from the hill, and now Astacides is made holy. No more beneath the oaks of Dicte, no more of Daphnis shall we shepherds sing, but always of Astacides.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXIV (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/178/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXIV (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/178/.
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