Death & Dying
Epigram LX (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Happy was Orestes of old who, mad in all else, yet was not mad with the madness of Leucaretas, nor tried the Phocian by the one test which proves the friend; nay, had he produced but one drama, soon would he by so doing have lost his comrade—even as I have no more my many Pyladae.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/214/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/214/.
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