Love
Epigram XLVI (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Love
“Thou wilt be caught! flee and save thyself, Menecrates!” said I on the 20th of Panemos, and on Loios the—what?—the 10th, the ox came to the plough unbidden. Well done, my Hermes, well done! with the twenty days’ interval I find no fault.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XLVI (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/200/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XLVI (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/200/.
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