Love

Epigram XXVII (Mair)

by Callimachus c. 310 – c. 240 BC

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.

MLA

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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