Love

Epigram XXX (Mair)

by Callimachus c. 310 – c. 240 BC

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.

MLA

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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