Death & Dying
Epigram XLI (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Priestess, Sir, of old was I of Demeter and again of the Cabeiri and afterward of Dindymene—I the old woman who am now dust, I who in the travail of Eleutho was the friend of many young wives. And two male children were born to me and in a ripe old age I closed my eyes in their arms. Go thy way and farewell!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XLI (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/195/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XLI (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/195/.
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