Death & Dying
Book VII, 80: On Heraclitus of Halicarnassus, the Elegiac Poet
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
One told me of thy death, Heraclitus, and it moved me to tears, when I remembered how often the sun set on our talking. And thou, my Halicarnassian friend, liest somewhere, gone long long ago to dust; but they live, thy Nightingales, on which Hades who seizeth all shall not lay his hand.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Book VII, 80: On Heraclitus of Halicarnassus, the Elegiac Poet.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/20/.
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Callimachus. “Book VII, 80: On Heraclitus of Halicarnassus, the Elegiac Poet.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/20/.
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