Death & Dying
Epigram LXII (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Menecrates of Aenus—for thou, it seems, wert not to be here for long—what, best of friends, made an end of thee? Was it that which was the undoing of the Centaur? “’Twas the destined sleep that came to me, but wretched wine has the blame.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LXII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/216/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LXII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/216/.
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