Arts & Sciences
Epigram XLIX (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Arts & Sciences
Simus, son of Miccus, offered me to the Muses, praying for ease of learning. And they, like Glaucus, gave him a great gift for a small. And here I am set, gaping twice as widely as the Samian (Dionysus), the tragic Dionysus, hearkening to children as they say “Sacred is the lock of hair,” repeating “my own dream to me.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XLIX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/203/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XLIX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/203/.
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