Love
Epigram XXX (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Love
I hate the cyclic poem, nor do I take pleasure in the road which carries many to and fro. I abhor, too, the roaming lover, and I drink not from every well; I loathe all common things. Lysanias, thou art, yea, fair, fair: but ere Echo has quite said the word, says someone, “He is another’s.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/184/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/184/.
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