Callimachus quotes
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“O Charidas, what of the under world?" "Great darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" "A lie." "And Pluto?" "A fable; we perish utterly.”
-- CallimachusSource : "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology". Book by John William Mackail, p. 171, Epigram 14, 1906.
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“More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.”
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“And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.”
-- CallimachusSource : Callimachus, “Heraclitus”
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“Set a thief to catch a thief.”
-- CallimachusSource : Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, Theognis, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.207, London : H.G. Bohn
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“Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.”
-- CallimachusSource : Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.194, London : H.G. Bohn
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“Nothing unattested do I sing.”
-- CallimachusSource : "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature", edited by P. E. Easterling. Vol 1, part 4, p. 30, Fragment 465, 1989.
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“A big book is a big misfortune.”
-- CallimachusSource : Fragment 465; translation by A. W. Bulloch, in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox (eds.) "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature" (1989) vol. 1, part 4, p. 30,
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“Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.”
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“I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common”
-- CallimachusSource : Epigram 28 in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)
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“A good man never dies.”
-- CallimachusSource : Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, Theognis, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.421, London : H.G. Bohn
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“Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.”
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“I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.”
-- CallimachusSource : Callimachus, “Heraclitus”
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“You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.”
-- Callimachus
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