Living
Epigram LII (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Living
Four are the Graces; for beside those three another has been fashioned lately and is yet wet with perfume. Happy Berenice and resplendent among all—without whom even the Graces themselves are not Graces.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Callimachus. “Epigram LII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/206/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/206/.
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