Arts & Sciences

Epigram L (Mair)

by Callimachus c. 310 – c. 240 BC

Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)

Arts & Sciences

Say, Stranger, that I am set up as a witness of the victory of Agoranax of Rhodes, a comic witness indeed—Pamphilus, not a single love-worn face but half of it like roasted figs and the lamps of Isis.

MLA

Callimachus. “Epigram L (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/204/.

Chicago

Callimachus. “Epigram L (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/204/.

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