Love
Epigram XXVII (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Love
Callignotus swore to Ionis that he would never hold man or woman dearer than her. He sware: but what they say is true—that lovers’ oaths enter not the ears of the immortals. And now his flame is a man, while of poor Ionis there is, as of the Megarians, “nor count nor reckoning.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXVII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/181/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXVII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/181/.
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