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Select epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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This volume contains the English
translation of the
hundred short poems included
five
work,
St'/eci
edited
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and
published
in
text
appeared
volume,
Greek
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literature
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Greek Anthology^
introduction,
revised
and
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a companion volume to the
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those
the
in
it
the
translation,
text,
W. Mackail,
by J.
notes
Greek
Epigrams from
in
which
Like
has
that
already
other
acceptable to students of
lovers of poetry
who do not
possess or do not care to carry about the bulkier and
costlier
book.
know Greek,
like
;
and
explain
It
may
also, for readers
who do not
help to give some idea of what Greek
for
these
it
may
is
not be superfluous to
very briefly the nature of the contents, a
detailed account of which
is
given in the Introduction
to the larger edition.
These
five
hundred
pieces,
which are arranged
according to their subject in twelve sections, are the
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
vi
an immense body of between
fine flower of
known
seven
thousand,
About
four thousand of
two collections made
as
and
six
Greek Anthology.
the
them have been preserved
in
Constantinople in the tenth
at
and the fourteenth century, and the remainder have
been brought together from
more modern
sources by
them date •from 700
literary
and
B.C.,
down
Throughout
all
no change
language or versification.
A
in
period
is
unique
to
1000
they present
form of poetry which remained
teen centuries
earliest of
and they extend from
that time almost continuously
that
inscriptional
The
scholars.
a.d.
little
or
alive for seven-
and bears
in literary history,
striking testimony to the extraordinary vitality of the
That
Greek genius.
it
is
still
thought.
draws
vitality is
not yet exhausted
an influence over modern
This selection of
for us a picture of
and
art,
life,
Greek minor poetry
Greece
in little
;
it
is
an
epitome, slightly sketched with a facile hand, of the
book of Greek
its
limitations
life.
and
to English readers
its
A
much
thing even of the tone
translation, notwithstanding
necessary inadequacy,
of the substance,
and
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give
and some-
flavour, of the original.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
The Garland of Meleager
I.
I
Love —
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIIT.
l.\.
Prelude
.
Laos Veneris
Love's Sweetness
Love and the Scholar
The
The
First Kiss
.
Reveller
Love and Wine
Love in the Storm
.
A
Kiss within the C'up
X. Love's Martyr
XI.
Love's Drink
XIII.
Love the Runaway
Love's Sympathy
XIV.
The Mad Lover
XII.
XV.
To
the World's
.
End
XVI. Love's Garland
XVII. Lover's P'right
XVIII.
XIX.
Love
A
in
Spring
.
.
.
Flower among the Flo
XX. Parting at
Dawn
Day
The Morning Star
XXI. Dearer than
XXII.
XXIII.
At Cockcrowing
XXIV. Dawn's Haste
XXV. Dawn's Delay
.
9
9
9
9
lo
lO
II
II
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
Vlll
XXVI. Waiting
XXVII. Waiting in Vain
The Scorned Lover
XXIX. Sleepless Night
XXX. The Love Letter
XXXI. Love and Reason
XXVIII.
Amo
XXXII. Odi et
.
XXXIII. Looking and Liking
XXXIV. Forget-Me-Not
XXXV. Amantiiim Irae
XXXVI. Inconstancy
XXXVII. Time's Revenge
.
XXXVIII. Flown Love
.
XXXIX. Moonlight
XL. Rose
.
XLi. Lily
.
Love and Sleep
XLlii. Slayer and Healer
XLiv. Perfume on the Violet
XLV. Love the tj ambler
XI, II.
XLVi. Drifting
XLVii. Love's Relapses
XLViii.
Love
the liall-Playci
XLIX. Love's Arrows
L.
Li.
Love's Excess
Moth and Candle
Lii.
Love
at
Liii.
Inter
Minora Sidera
LIV.
Rosa Triplex
Love in Absence
l.v.
Lvi.
LVii.
LViii.
Lix.
LX.
Auction
.
The Sea's Wooing
The Tenth Muse
The Light of Troy
Love and Music
Honey and Sting
CONTENTS
l.xi.
LXII.
Love's Messenger
-3
Love ihe Slayer
24
24
LXlli.
Forsaken
LXiv.
The
Sleepless Lover
LXV. Rest
LXVI.
T.XVII.
I.
Win.
at
Noon
The Burden of
Broken Vows
Doubtful
24
25
.
YduIIi
25
26
26
26
.
Dawn
The Dew of Tears
LXX. Love's Grave
i.xxr. Love's Masterdom
Lxxii. Love the Conqueror
LXix.
1.
XXIII.
LXXiv.
i.xxv.
I.
27
27
27
28
Love's Prisoner
I'rost
and Fire
The Sculptor
28
.
29
of Souls
XXVI. Love's Lnmortality
II.
I'KAVKKS
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
IX
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
AN'l)
29
DEDICATIONS
Zeus of Schcria
the (led of the Sea
.
Harbour and Headland
Poseidon of Acgae
the Lord of Sea and Land
the Gods of Sea and Weather
Poseidon, by a Fisherman
Palaemon and Ino
the C^od of
.
.
.
32
.32
.
jVrtemis of the Fishing-nets
Priapus of the Shore
Apollo of Leucas
Artemis of the Ways
the Twin Brethren
Artemis the Healer
33
Asclepius
35
.
.
the
Water Nymphs
.
34
34
34
35
35
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
PAGE
To Pan Paean
xviii. To Heracles of Oeta
XIX. To Apollo and the Muses
XX. To Aphrodite of the Golden House
XXI. To Aphrodite, by Callistion
XVII.
36
36
36
.
37
37
.
XXII.
xxiii.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
xxvii.
XXVIII.
XXIX.
XXX.
XXXI.
XXXH,
XXXIII.
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
XXXVIII.
XXXIX.
XL.
XLI.
XLli.
XLiii.
XLiv.
XLV.
No Aphrodite, by Lais
To Aphrodite, with a Talisman
To the Mother of the Gods
To Aphrodite Euploia
To the God of Canopus
To Isis, with a Tress of Hair
To Heracles, with a Shield
To the Milesian Artemis
To Athene Ergane
To the Orchard God
To Demeter and the Seasons
To the Corn Goddess
To the Gods of the Farm
To the West Wind
To Pan of the P'ountain
To Pan and the Nymphs
To the Shepherd God
To Pan, by a Hunter, a Fowler, and
To Artemis of the Oakwood
To the Gods of the Chase
To Arcadian Artemis
To Apollo, with a Hunter's Bow
To Pan of the Shepherds
To the God of Arcady
II.
III.
37
38
.
38
38
39
.
39
39
.
39
40
40
40
.
.
.
41
41
41
41
42
a Fisher
,
.
HI. Epitaphs
I.
37
On
On
On
42
42
43
43
43
44
44
—
the Athenian
Dead
at Plataea
Lacedaemonian Dead at Plataea
the Spartans at Thermopylae
the
45
45
45
CONTENTS
XI
....
On the Same
On the Dead in an Unknown Battle
VI. On the Defenders of Tegea
VII. On the Dead in a Battle in Boeotia
VIII. On a Slain Warrior
IX. On the Slain in a Battle in Thessaly
X. On the Athenian Dead at the Battle of Chalci s
XI. On the Eretrian Exiles in Persia
XII. On the Same
XIII. On Aeschylus
XIV. On an Empty Tomb in Trachis
XV. On a Grave at Meroe
XVI. On a Grave at Cyzicus
XVII. On a Shipwrecked Sailor
XVIII. On the Same
XIX. On the Same
XX. On the Same
XXI. On the Same
XXII. On the Same
XXIII. On the Empty Tomb of One Lost at Sea
XXIV. On the Same
XXV. On the Same
XXVI. On the Same
XXVII. On a Sailor Drowned in Harbour
XXVIII. On Ariston of Cyrene, Lost at Sea
XXIX. On Biton of Amphipolis, Lost at Sea
XXX. On Polyanthus of Torone, Lost at Sea
XXXI. On a Wayside Tomb
XXXII. On the Children of Nicander and Lysidice
XXXIII. On a Baby
XXXIV. On a Child of Five
XXXV. On a Child of Seven
XXXVI. On a Boy of Twelve
XXXVII. On Cleoetes
XXXVIII. On a Beautiful Boy
IV.
V.
.
.
.
.
.
.
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
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.
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46
46
47
47
47
47
48
48
48
48
49
49
49
50
50
50
50
51
51
51
52
52
52
53
53
53
54
54
54
54
55
55
55
56
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
xu
XXXIX.
XL.
XLi.
XLII.
XLlii.
XLiv.
XLV.
XLVi.
XLVii.
XLViii.
XLix.
L.
LI.
Lii.
Liii.
Liv.
LV.
LVI.
LVII.
LViii.
LIX.
LX.
LXi.
LXii.
LXiii.
LXiv.
LXV.
LXVi.
LXVii.
IV.
On a Boy of Nineteen
On a Son, by his Father
On a Son, by his Mother
On a Girl
On a Betrothed Girl
On the Same
On a Sinying-Girl
On Claudia Hornonoea
On Paula of Tarentum
On a Mother, Dead in Childbirth
On a Mother of Eighteen, and her Baby
On a Young Wife
On Atthis of Cnidos
On Prexo, Wife of Theocritus of Sn
On Amazonia of Thessalonica
On a Lacedaemonian Nurse
On a Lydian Slave
On a Persian Slave
On a Favourite Dog
On a Maltese Watch-Dog
On a Grasshopper
On a Tame Partridge
On a Thessalian Hound
On Charidas of Cyrene
On Theognis of Sinope
On a Dead Friend
On an Unhappy Man
On a Cretan Merchant
On Saon of Acanthus
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
56
56
56
57
57
57
58
58
58
59
59
59
60
60
60
61
61
61
62
62
62
62
63
63
63
64
64
64
.
Literature and ArtI.
II.
III.
The Grove of the Muses
The Voice of the World
The Tale of Troy
65
65
66
CONTENTS
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VI
11.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
xviii.
XIX.
Oiplieus
Sappho
Krinna (i)
Krinna (2)
Anacreon's Grave (i)
Anacreon's Grave (2)
Pindar
Thespis
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Rhintho
Meleager (i)
Meleager (2)
Pylades the Harp-Play
.
.
.
The Death
of Music
XX. Apollo and Marsyas
(i)
XXI. Apollo and Marsyas (2)
XXII. Glaphyrus the Plute-l'iay
and Flute
XXIV. Popular Songs
XXIII. Viol
XXV. Calamus
XXVI. In the Classroom
XXVII.
xxviii.
The Poor Scholar
The Phaedo of Plato
.
XXIX. Cleombrotus of Ambracia
XXX. The Dead Scholar
XXXI. Alexandrianism
xxxii. Species Aeternitatis
XXXIII,
The
On
XXXV. On
XXXVI. On
XXXVII. On
XXXVIII. On
xxxiv.
Pastoral Poets
.
.
the Portrait of a Girl
a Relief of Eros and Anteros
a Love Breaking the Thunderljolt
a
a
Love Ploughing
Pan Piping
xui
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
XIV
XXXIX.
XL.
XLI.
XLii.
XLiii.
XLIV.
XLV.
XLVi.
XLVii.
V.
On a Statue of the Armed Venus
On the Cnidian Venus of Praxiteles
On a Sleeping Ariadne
On a Niobe by Praxiteles
On a Picture of a Faun
On the Heifer of Myron
On a Sleeping Satyr
On the Temple of the Ephesian Artemis
.
The Limit
Religion
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
Worship
Worship
in
in
Spring
Spring
Zeus of the Fair
(i)
.
78
79
79
79
79
80
.81
.
81
(2)
Wind
The Holy City
Hermes of the Ways
82
82
83
.
Sacred Nurseries of Youth
83
Pan of
83
the Sea-Cliff
.
The Spirit of the Sea
The Guardian of the Chase
The Hunter God
84
84
84
Fortuna Parvulorum
85
.
The
.
Prayers of the Saints
Saved by Faith
XIV.
The
God
Service of
XV. Beali
XVII.
78
78
—
XIII.
XVI.
VI.
of Art
78
Mundo Corde
The Water of Purity
The Great Mysteries
85
85
86
.
.
86
.
86
.
87
Nature—
I.
II.
The Garden God
Pan's Piping
.
.
.
.
.88
88
cuN iKN
XV
i:s
PACE
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
The Hidden Spring
The Meadow at Noon
Beneath the Pine
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Wood-Music
The Plane-tree on Ilymettus
The Garden of Pan
The Fountain of Love
.
On
the
Lawn
.
The Singing Stone
The Woodland Weil
.
.
89
89
89
90
90
90
.
91
.
91
91
92
.
Asleep in the Wood
XIV. The Orchard-Corner
XV. Pastoral Solitude
XVI. To a Blackbird Singing
XIII.
92
92
.
.
Under the Oak
The Release of the Ox
XIX. The Swallow and the Grasshopper
XX. The Complaint of the Cicala
XXI. The Lament of the .Swallow
XXII. The Shepherd of the Nymphs
XXIII The Shrine by the Sea (i)
XXIV. The Shrine by the Sea (2)
XXV. The Lighthouse
93
93
93
XVII.
XVIII.
94
94
94
.
95
.
XXVI. Spring on the Coast
XXVII. Spring on the Coast
XXVIII Green Summer
XXIX Palace Gardens
(i)
(2)
95
95
95
•
•
.
96
96
96
97
97
VIL The Family —
I.
Tlie
House
of the Righteous
III.
The Girl's Cup
The Flower Unblown
IV.
A
II.
Rose
in
Winter
99
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GREEK ANTHOLOGY
XVI
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
Goodbye to Childhood
The Schoolboy
The Wife's Prayer
Bridegroom and Bride
The Bride's Vigil
Heaven on Earth
Weary Parting
Motherhood
.
XIII. Past Peril
XIV. Father and Mother
XV. Household Happiness
XVI. Gracious Children
XVII.
XVIII.
The Unbroken Home
The Broken Home
XIX. Sundering
XX.
Nunc
Dimittis
XXI. Left Alone
XXII. Earth's Felicity
vni. Beauty—
I.
II.
III.
n'.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII,
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
Summer Noon
In the Field-Path
The New Love
Contra
The
The
The
The
The
Mundum
Kiss
Flower of Cos
Star-Gazer
Sun
of
Tyre
Lodestar
.
Laurel and Hyacinth
The Quest of Pan
The Autumn Bower
An Ash in the P'ire
XIV. Farewell
CONTENTS
IX.
Fate and Change
XVII
—
PAGE
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
The Flower of Youth
The Maiden's Posy
.
.
.
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III
Withered Blossoms
Rose and Thorn
.
112
112
The Bird of Time
The End of Desire
Hoarded Beauty
112
Dust and Ashes
"3
"3
112
113
To-Morrow
The Casket of Pandcra
Coming Winter
114
Nemesis
114
114
The Bloody Well
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115
Story of the Sea
Empty Hands
115
XVI. Light Love
116
XVII, Fortune's Plaything
.
xvni. Time the Conqueror
XIX. Memnon and Achilles
.
XXI. Delos
XXII. Troy
116
116
117
XX. Corinth
XXIII.
.
117
.
117
.
118
Mycenae
XXXIII. Parting
iiS
(i)
XXIV. Mycenae (2)
XXV. Amphipolis
XXVI. Sparta
XXVII. Berytus
XXVIII. Sed Terrae Gi aviora
XXIX. Youth and Riches
XXX. The Vine's Revenge
XXXI. Reversal
XXXII. Tenants at Will
Comp my
118
119
119
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119
120
120
.
120
120
121
121
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PAGE
XXXIV. Fortune's Master
XXXV. Break of Day
121
121
.
X.
The Human Comedy—
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
viir.
IX.
Prologue
122
Flower o' the Rose
Lost Drink
122
The Vintage-Revel
Snow in Summer
A Jug of Wine
The Empty Jar
123
Angeloruni Chori
124
124
Summer
122
123
123
124
Sailing
X. L'Allegro
XI.
XII.
Dum
Vivimus Vivamus
Hope and Experience
125
125
126
XIII.
An Ungrounded
XIV.
The Popular Singer
The Faultless Dancer
The Fortunate Painter
126
Slow and Sure
Marcus the Runner
Hermogenes
Phantasms of the Living
A Labour of Hercules
126
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
Scandal
.
.
.
XXII. Erotion
XXIII. Artemidora
XXIV. The Atomic Theory
XXV. Chaeremon
XXVI. God and the Doctor
XXVII. The Physician and the Astrologer
XXVIII. A Deadly Dream
XXIX. Simon the Oculist
XXX. Scientific Surgery
126
126
127
127
127
128
128
128
128
129
129
129
130
130
130
CONTENTS
XIX
I'AGE
XXXI. Tlie Wise Prophet
.
.
XXXII. Soothsaying
XXXIII. A School of Rhetoric
.
131
.
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
The
'31
.
Liberal Arts
131
Cross Purposes
132
The Patent Stove
The Wooden Horse
132
132
.
A Mysterious Disappearance
XXXIX. Cinyras the Cilician
XL. A Generation of Vipers
XXXVIII.
133
133
.
XLI.
XLII.
The Lifeboat
The Miser and
133
133
.
the
Mouse
134
XLIII. Vegetarianism
XLIV. Nicon's Nose
XLV.
XLVI.
.130
134
134
.
Why
so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover
The World's Revenge
XLVII. Epilogue
135
135
135
XL DeathI.
II.
The Span
of Life
Dusty Death
III.
A
IV.
Bene Merenti
V.
VI.
VII,
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
136
136
.
Citizen of the Republic
137
Peace in the End
The Withered Vine
Accomplishment
Loca Pastorum Deserta
The Old Shepherd
The Dead Fowler
The Ant by the Threshing-Floor
.
.
The Tame Partridge
The Silent Singing-Bird
XIV. The Fields of Persephone
XV. The Disconsolate Shepherd
XII.
137
.
^Z7
138
138
138
139
139
140
140
.
XIII.
140
140
.
141
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XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
Lampo
the Plound
Storm on the Hills
A
Wet Night
XIX. Far from
.
Home
XX. Death at Sea
.
XXI. At the World's
End
.
XXII. In Limine Portus
XXIII.
Drowned
in
Harbour
XXIV. In Sound of the Sea
.
.
XXV. The Empty House
XXVI. The Sea's Harvest
XXVII.
XXVIII.
The Sinking
A
Restless
of the Pleiad
Grave
XXIX. Telluris Amor
XXX. A Grave by the Sea
XXXI. An Empty Tomb
XXXII. The Days of the Halcyons
XXXIII. A Winter Voyage
XXXIV. The Dead Child
.
XXXV. The
Little Sister
XXXVI. Persephone's Plaything
XXXVII. Childless among Women
XXXVIII. Fate's Persistency
XXXIX. Ante Diem
XL. Unforgotten
XLI.
XLII.
XLlli.
.
The Bridechamber
Bridegroom Death
The Young Wife
XLiv. Sanctissima Coniunx
XLV. Sundered Hands
XLVi. Undivided
XLVii. First Love
XLViii. First Friendship
XLIX. Strewings for Graves
L. The Liberator
CONTENTS
XXI
PAGE
LI.
Lil.
Llii.
XII.
Dimitte Mortuos
Mors Immorlalis
The LiHit
of the
Dead
153
Life—
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
The Joy of Youth
The Use of Life
Vain Riches
154
154
154
.
Minimum Credula
Donee Hodie
Postero
Requiesce Anima
155
One Event
The Passing of Youth.
The Highway to Death
156
Before the Deluge
157
P'leeting Da\^ n
157
Outre-Tombe
157
.
Earth to Earth
XIV. The Coffin-maker
XV. Returning Spring
XVII.
A
Wandering
Ecce Mysterium
Life's
The Shadow of Life
XIX. The House of Fame
XX. The Shadow of Death
XVIII.
XXI. Parta Quies
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV. Daily Birth
XXV. The Limit of Vision
15S
.
159
.
159
159
.
XXVIl.
XXVIII.
The Breath
Two
.
.
of
160
161
161
162
Eternities
The Lord
160
161
of Life
Lands
XXIX. The Price of Riches
159
160
160
.
.
XXVI.
156
158
.
The Closed Account
The Voyage of Life
156
158
XIII.
XVI.
155
•55
.
162
.
162
XXll
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XXX. The Darkness of
Dawn
.
.
163
.
XXXI. Nil Expedit
XXXXI. The Way of the World
163
.
XXXIII.
The Sum
of
163
Knowledge
XXXIV. Nihilism
XXXV. Nepenthe
XXXVI. The Slaughter- House
XXXVII. Lacrimae Rerum
XXXVIII. The World's Worth
164
164
164
164
.
165
165
.
XXXIX. Pis-Aller
XI.. The Sorrow of Life
XLI.
The Joy
165
166
166
of Life
XLII. Quietism
167
Equanimity
XLIV. The Rules of the
167
XLIII.
XLV. The One Hope
XLVI. Amor Mysticus
XLVII.
Index
The
Last
Word
Game
.
167
167
.
168
168
169
THE GARLAND OF MELEAGER
Dear Muse,
whom
bringest thou this gardenful
he that fashioned the garland of
poets? Meleager made it, and wrought out this gift
as a remembrance for noble Diodes, inweaving many
lilies of Anyte, and many martagons of Moero, and
of Sappho little, but all roses, and the narcissus of
choral Melanippides budding into hymns, and the
fresh shoot of the vine-blossom of Simonides
twining
to mingle therewith the spice-scented flowering iris of
Nossis, on whose tablets Love melted the wax, and
with her, marjoram from sweet-breathing Rhianus,
of song, or
for
who
is
;
and the delicious maiden-fleshed crocus of Erinna,
and the hyacinth of Alcaeus, vocal among the poets,
and the dark-leaved laurel-spray of Samius, and withal
the rich ivy-clusters of Leonidas, and the tresses of
Mnasalcas' sharp pine.; and he plucked the spreading
plane of the song of Pamphilus, woven together with
the walnut shoots of Pancrates and the fair-foliaged
white poplar of Tymnes, and the green mint of Nicias,
and the horn -poppy of Euphemus growing on the
sands and with these Damagetus, a dark violet, and
;
the sweet myrtle-berry of Callimachus, ever full of
pungent honey, and the rose-campion of Euphorion
and the spice-plant of the Muses, him who had his
surname from the Dioscori and with them he inwove
Hegesippus, a riotous grape-cluster, and mowed down
:
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the scented rush of Perses ; and withal the quince
from the branches of Diotimus, and the first pomegranate flowers of Menecrates, and the myrrh-twigs
of Nicaenetus, and the terebinth of Phaennus, and
the tall wild pear of Simmias, and among them also
parsley from the blameless meadow of Parthenis,
plucking apart its small flowers, and fruitful remnants
from the honey-dropping Muses, yellow ears from the
corn-blade of Bacchylides ; and withal Anacreon,
both that sweet song of his and his nectarous elegies,
unsown honeysuckle ; and withal the thorn-blossom
of Archilochus from a tangled brake, bitter drops
from the ocean ; and with them the young oliveshoots of Alexander, and the crimson water-lily of
Polycleitus
Polystratus
;
and among them he
laid
amaracus,
the flower of singers, and the young
Phoenician cypress of Antipater, and also set therein
spiked Syrian nard, the poet who sang of himself
gift ; and withal Posidippus and Hedylus
wild blossoms of the cornfield, and the
blowing windflowers of the son of Sicelides ; yea,
and set therein the golden bough of the ever divine
Plato, that shines everywhere by its virtue, and
beside him Aratus the knower of the stars, cutting
the first-born spires of that heaven-high palm, and
the fair-tressed lotus of Chaeremon mixed with the
gilliflower of Phaedimus, and the woven daisies of
Antagoras, and the wine-loving fresh-blown wild
thyme of Theodorides, and the corn-flowers of
Phanias, and many newly-scriptured shoots of others
as
Hermes'
together,
and with them
also even
early white violets.
gift;
Now
from
to
his
my
own Muse some
friends I bring this
but the sweet-worded garland of the Muses
common
to
all initiate.
is
LOVE
I
PRELUDE
POSIDIPPUS
Jar of Athens, drip the dewy wetness of the WineGod, drip in dew over the feast to which all bring
their share
be silenced the swan, sage Zeno, and the
Muse of Cleanthes, and let our concern be bitter;
sweet Love.
II
LAUS VENERIS
ASCLEPIADES
Sweet
is
and sweet
snow
in
summer
for
one
athirst to drink,
Crown
for sailors after winter to see the
but most sweet when one cloak hides
two lovers, and the praise of Love is told by both.
of spring;
Ill
love's sweetness
NOSSIS
Nothing
is
sweeter than love, and
things are second to
it
;
yes,
delicious
all
even honey
I
spit
3
out
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of my mouth.
Thus saith Nossis and he whom
the Cyprian loves not, knows not what roses her
flowers are.
;
IV
LOVE AND THE SCHOLAR
MARCUS ARGENTARIUS
Book
Once when
of Hesiod in
hands, suddenly I saw Pyrrha approaching ; and
casting the book to the ground from my hand, I cried
out, Why bring your works to me, old Hesiod ?
turning over the
my
THE FIRST
KISS
STRATO
At evening,
hour when we say
know not whether
clearly I now have
at the
Moeris kissed me,
I
good-night,
really or in
the rest in
a dream for very
mind, all she said to me, and all that she asked me
of; but whether she has kissed me too, I am still to
seek ; for if it is true, how, once thus rapt to heaven,
;
do
go to and
I
fro
upon earth ?
VI
THE REVELLER
MELEAGER
Let the die be thrown ; light up
I will on my
Heavy with wine, what is your
way aye, courage
I will revel ? whither will
purpose ? I will revel.
And what is Reason to Love ? light
you, O heart ?
!
!
;
—
—
—
—
LOVE
4-9]
5
—
But where is your old study of philo-.
sophy ? Away with the long toil of wisdom this
one thing only I know, that Love abated even the
up, quick
—
!
;
pride of Zeus.
VII
LOVE AND WINE
RUFINUS
am
I
arnjed against Love with a breastplate of
Reason, neither shall he conquer me, one against
one ; yes, I a mortal will contend with him the im-
mortal but if he have Bacchus to second him, what
can I do alone against the two ?
:
»
VIII
LOVE IN THE STORM
ASCLEPIADES
Snow, hail, darken, blaze, thunder, shake forth all
thy glooming clouds upon the earth for if thou slay
me, then will I cease, but while thou leavest me alive,
though in worse plight than this, I will revel. For
the God draws me who is thy master too, at whose
persuasion, Zeus, thou didst once pierce in gold to
;
that brazen bridal-chamber.
IX
A KISS WITHIN THE CUP
AGATHIAS
am no
wine-bibber but if you
drunk, taste first and bring it me, and
I
;
will
I
make me
take
it.
For
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[sect,
i
you shall touch it with your lips, no longer is it
easy to keep sober or to escape the sweet cup-bearer
for the cup carries me the kiss from you, and tells me
of the favour that it had.
if
X
love's
martyr
MELEAGER
Evermore in mine ears eddies the sound of Love,
and mine eye carries the silent sweetness of a tear
neither does night nor light let me
my enchanted heart bears the wellknown imprint. Ah, winged Loves, why do you ever
know how to fly towards me, but have no whit of
strength to fly away ?
to the Desires
rest,
;
but already
XI
love's drink
MELEAGER
The cup is sweetly glad, and says that it touches the
mouth of love's darling, Zenophile. Happy
voiceful
!
would that now, bringing up her lips to
would drink at one draught the very soul
my
in
lips,
she
me.
XII
LOVE THE RUNAWAY
MELEAGER
I
now
make hue and
in the
Love for now, even
morning dusk, he flew away from his bed
cry after wild
;
LOVE
IO-I4]
7
and was gone.
This boy is full of sweet tears, ever
unabashed, sly-laughing, winged on the
back, girt with a quiver.
But whose son he is I cannot say, for Heaven denies having borne this rufifler,
and Earth and Sea deny. Everywhere and by all is
he hated now look you to it lest haply even now he
is laying more springes for souls.
Yet there he is,
see
about his lurking-place I espy thee, O archer,
talking, swift,
;
—
;
!
ambushed
in Zenophile's eyes.
XIII
love's
sympathy
CALLIMACHUS
was wounded and we knew it not how
mark you ? he drew from the depth of
his breast.
Lo, 'twas the third cup he was drinking,
and his garlands scattered their petals, and all the
roses were shed on the ground.
He is deep in the
fire, surely
no, by the gods, I guess not at random
Our
friend
;
bitter a sigh,
;
a thief myself,
I
know
a thief s footprints.
XIV
THE MAD LOVER
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
A man
wounded by
say, the beast's
image
a rabid dog's
venom
sees, they
mad Love
me, and made my soul the
in all waters.
Surely
has fixed his bitter fang in
prey of his frenzies for both the sea and the eddies
;
of rivers and the wine-carrying
image, beloved.
cup show
me
thy
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i
XV
TO THE world's END
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
Even
wilt plant thy foot far away beyond
Meroe, winged Love carries me thither with the
might of wings even if thou wilt pass into the East
to the Dawn whose hue is thine, afoot over immeasurif
thou
:
able leagues
I will follow.
XVI
love's
garland
MELEAGER
I will twine the white violet
and
delicate narcissus with myrtle buds,
I will
and
twine the
twine
I will
laughing lilies, and I will twine the sweet crocus, and
I will twine therewithal the crimson hyacinth, and I
will twine lovers' roses, that on balsam-curled Heliodora's temples my garland may shed its petals over
the lovelocks of her hair.
XVII
lover's FRIGHT
MELEAGER
She has been snatched away
What
!
savage could
do so cruel a deed ? Who so bold as to raise battle
against very Love ?
Light torches, quick and yet
a footfall Heliodora's ; go back into my breast, O
!
;
my
heart.
LOVE
15-21]
XVIII
LOVE IN SPRING
MELEAGER
Now the white violet
narcissus,
blooms, and blooms the moist
and bloom the mountain-ranging lilies and
;
spring flower among the
flowers, Zenophile, the sweet rose of Persuasion, has
Meadows, why idly laugh in the
burst into bloom.
brightness of your tresses ? for my girl is better than
now, dear to her
lovers,
garlands sweet to smell.
XIX
A FLOWER AMONG THE FLOWERS
MELEAGER
The
garland withers round Heliodora's head
she shines out, the garland of the garland.
;
but
XX
PARTING AT DAWN
MELEAGER
Farewell, Morning Star, herald of dawn, and quickly
come as the Evening Star, bringing again in secret
her
whom
thou takest away.
XXI
DEARER THAN DAY
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
'
my
Farewell,' I
would say
voice and rein
it
to
you
;
and again
backward, and again
I
check
I
stay
lo
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;
for I shrink from the terrible separation
from you as from the bitter night of Acheron for
Yet that, I think,
the Ught of you is Hke the day.
is voiceless, but you bring me also the murmuring
talk of that voice sweeter than the Sirens', whereon
all my soul's hopes are hung.
beside you
;
XXII
THE MORNING STAR
MACEDONIUS
Morning Star, do not violence to Love, neither learn,
neighbour as thou art to Mars, to have a heart that
pities not ; but as once before, seeing Phaethon in
Clymene's chamber, thou heldest not on thy fleetfoot course from the East, even so on the skirts of
night, the night that so hardly has lightened on my
desire, come lingering as among the Cimmerians.
XXIII
AT COCKCROWING
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Grey dawn is over, Chrysilla, and ere now the
morning cock clarioning leads on the envious Lady
Ill betide thee, most envious of birds, who
of Morn.
drivest me from my home to the chattering crowd of
men. Thou growest old, Tithonus else why dost
thou chase Dawn thy bedfellow out of her couch
while yet morning is so young ?
;
22-26]
LOVE
II
XXIV
dawn's haste
MELEAGER
Grey dawn, hater of lovers, why
round my bed, where but now
thou so
nestled close
to darling Demo ?
Would God thou wouldst turn
thy fleet course backward and be evening, thou
shedder of the sweet light that is so bitter on me.
For once before, for Zeus and his Alcmena, thou
wentest contrary ; thou art not unlessoned in running
swift
risest
I
backward.
XXV
dawn's delay
MELEAGER
Grey dawn, hater of lovers, why roUest thou now
so slow round the world, since another is shrouded
and warm by Demo ? but when I held her delicate
form to my breast, swift thou wert upon us, shedding
on me a malicious light.
XXVI
WAITING
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
Cleophantis lingers long
the third lamp now
begins to give a broken glimmer as it silently wastes
And would that the firebrand in my heart
away.
too were quenched with the lamp, and did not burn
;
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me
long in wakeful desires.
by
ihe Cytherean that she
but she recks not of either
Ah how
[sect,
i
often she swore
at evenfall
would be here
men
or gods.
XXVII
WAITING IN VAIN
ASCLEPIADES
Xico the renowned consented to come to me at
and swore by the holy Lady of Laws and
she is not come, and the watch has gone by; did
nightfall
;
she mean to forwear herself?
lamp.
Servants, put out the
XXVIII
THE SCORNED LOVER
ASCLEPIADES
O Night, thee and none other I take to witness,
how Nico's Pythias flouts me, traitress as she is
asked, not unasked am I come may she yet blame
thee in the selfsame plight standing by my porch
:
I
XXIX
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
AGATHIAS
All night long I sigh ; and when grey dawn rises
grants me grace to sleep for a little, the swallows
and
LOVE
27-31]
cry around and about me, and drive
thrusting sweet slumber away ; and
13
me back to tears,
my swollen eyes
keep vigil, and the thought of Rhodanthe returns
again in my bosom.
O envious chatterers, be still
it
was not I who shore away Philomela's tongue
weep for Itylus on the mountains, and sit wailing by
the hoopoe's rocky tent, that we may sleep a little
:
and perchance a dream
will
come and
clasp
me round
with Rhodanthe's arms.
XXX
THE LOVE LETTER
RUFINUS
Rufinus to Elpis, my most sweet, greeting well
be with thee, if thou canst be well away from me.
No longer can I bear, no, by thine eyes, my solitary
and unmated severance from thee, but evermore
dabbled with tears I go to Coressus or to the temple
of the great Artemis
but to-morrow my home shall
Fare well ten
receive me, and I will fly to thy face.
thousand times.
;
;
XXXI
LOVE AND REASON
PHILODEMUS
My
soul forewarns
me
to flee the desire of Helio-
knowing well the tears and jealousies of old.
She talks but I have no strength to flee, for, shamedora,
;
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14
she
she loves
less that
is,
[sect,
i
she forewarns, and while she forewarns,
XXXII
ODI ET
AMO
MELEAGER
Take
message, Dorcas lo again a second and
a third time, Dorcas, take her all my message run
delay no longer fly.
Wait a little, Dorcas, prithee
a little
Dorcas, whither so fast before learning all
this
;
:
;
;
;
I
would say
—
?
And add
am a fool
to
what
I
have
just said
—
only
say nothing at all
that
say everything ; spare not to say everything.
Yet why do I send you out, Dorcas, when myself,
see, I go forth with you ?
or rather
—
I
;
XXXIII
LOOKING AND LIKING
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
Eyes, how long are you draining the nectar of the
Loves, rash drinkers of the strong unmixed wine of
beauty ? let us run far away, far as we have strength
to go, and in calm I will pour sober offerings to
Cypris the Placable.
But if haply even there I am
caught by the frenzy, be you wet with chill tears and
doomed for ever to bear deserved pain since from
you, alas
it was that we fell into all this
labour
;
!
of
fire.
LOVE
32-36]
15
XKXIV
FORGET-ME-NOT
AGATHIAS
Dost thou then also, PhiUnna, carry longing in
thee, dost thou thyself also sicken and waste away
with tearless eyes? or is thy sleep most sweet to
thee, while of our care thou makest neither count
nor reckoning? Thou wilt find thy fate likewise,
and thy haughty cheek I shall see wetted with
fast-falling tears.
For the Cyprian in all else is
malign, but one virtue is imparted her, hate of
proud beauties.
XXXV
AMANTIUM IRAE
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
At evening Galatea slammed-to the doors
me
a speech
in
my
'Scorn
breaks love ; idly errs this byword ; her scorn
inflames my love-madness the more.
For I swore
I would stay a year away from her ; out and alas
but with break of day I went to sue her favour.
face,
flinging
at
of
scorn.
'
!
XXXVI
INCONSTANCY
MACEDONIUS
Constantia, inconstant one
and thought
it
beautiful, but
!
I
thou
heard the
art to
name
me more
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Thou fliest him who loves thee,
bitter than death.
and him who loves thee not thou pursuest, that he
may love thee and thou mayest fly him once again.
XXXVIl
time's
revenge
CALLIMACHUS
So mayest thou slumber, Conopion, as thou makest
me couch
here in the chill porch ; so mayest thou
slumber, most cruel, as thou givest rest to thy lover
not even in a dream hast thou known compassion.
The neighbours have compassion on me, but thou
knowest not even the phantom of pity but the silver
hair will remind thee of all this by and by.
;
;
XXXVIII
FLOWN LOVE
MARCUS ARGENTARIUS
Golden-horned Moon, thou seest this, and you
fiery-shining stars whom Ocean takes into his breast,
how perfume-breathing Ariste has gone and left me
alone,
witch.
I will
and this is the sixth day I cannot find the
But we will seek her notwithstanding surely
lay the silver sleuth-hounds of the Cyprian on
;
her track.
XXXIX
MOONLIGHT
PHILODEMUS
Lady of Night, twy-horned, love
revels, shine,
O Moon
of
nightlong
shine, quivering through the
LOVE
37-42]
17
shed thy splendour on golden
thine immortality may look down unthou dost bless
grudging on the deeds of lovers
Moon ; for thy soul too
both her and me, I know,
latticed
windows
Callistion
;
;
;
O
was
fired
by Endymion.
XL
ROSE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Would I were a pink rose, that fastening me with
thine hands thou mightest grant me grace of thy
snowy
breast.
XLI
LILY
THEOPHANES
Would I were a white lily, that fastening me with
thine hands thou mightest satisfy me with the nearness of thy body.
XLII
LOVE AND SLEEP
MELEAGER
Thou
that I
sleepest, Zenophile,
had come
would
upon
he who even charms
dainty darling;
to thee now, a wingless sleep
thine eyelids, that not even he,
the eyes of Zeus, might come nigh thee, but myself
had held thee, T thee alone.
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XLIII
SLAYER AND HEALER
MACEDONIUS
have a wound of love, and from my wound flows
ichor of tears, and the gash is never stanched ; for
I am at my wits' end for misery, and no Machaon
sprinkles soothing drugs on me in my need.
I am
Telephus, O maiden ; be thou my true Achilles
with thy beauty allay the longing as thou didst
I
kindle
it.
XLIV
PERFUME ON THE VIOLET
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
send thee sweet perfume, giving grace to the
perfume, not to thee ; for thyself thou canst perfume
even the perfume.
I
XLV
LOVE THE GAiMBLER
MELEAGER
Still
in the
in his mother's lap, a child playing with dice
morning, Love played
my
life
away.
XLVI
DRIFTING
MELEAGER
Bitter
wave of Love, and
and wintry sea of
restless gusty Jealousies
revellings,
whither
am
I
borne
?
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and the rudders of my spirit are quite
shall we sight delicate Scylla once again ?
cast loose
;
XLVII
love's relapses
MELEAGER
Soul that weepest sore, how is Love's wound that
was allayed in thee inflaming again in thy bosom
nay, nay, for God's sake, nay for God's sake, O
infatuate, stir not the fire that flickers low among the
ashes.
For soon, O oblivious of thy pains, so sure
as Love catches thee in flight again, he will torture
his found runaway.
!
XLVIII
LOVE THE BALL-PLAYER
MELEAGER
The Love
I
keep
is
a ball-player, and throws to
thee, Heliodora, the heart that throbs in
thou cast
wanton
me away
from thee,
I
will
Come
me.
then, take thou Love-longing for his playmate
but if
not bear the
;
false play.
XLIX
love's arrows
MELEAGER
Nay by Demo's tresses, nay by Heliodora's sandal,
nay by Timarion's scent-dripping doorway, nay by
great-eyed Anticleia's dainty smile, nay by Dorothea's
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fresh-blossomed garlands, no longer, Love, does thy
quiver hide its bitter-winged arrows, for thy shafts are
all
fixed in
me.
L
love's excess
AUTHOR UNKNO\VN
to
Take thy war-shafts,
some other target
;
for a
O
Cypris, and go at thy leisure
for I
have not even space
left
wound.
LI
MOTH AND CANDLE
MELEAGER
thou scorch so often the soul that flutters round
she too,
thee, O Love, she will flee away from thee
O cruel, has wings.
If
;
LII
LOVE AT AUCTION
MELEAGER
Let him be sold, even while he yet sleeps on his
mother's bosom, let him be sold why should I have
For it is snubthe rearing of this impudent thing?
nosed and winged, and scratches with its nail-tips,
and weeping laughs often between ; and furthermore
is unabashed, ever-talking, sharp-glancing, wild and
not gentle even to its very own mother, every way
a monster ; so it shall be sold ; if any outward-bound
merchant will buy a boy, let him come hither. And
;
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see, all in tears.
I
he beseeches,
be
stay here and
no more
be comforted
yet
;
;
;
sell
live
thee
with
Zenophile.
LIII
INTER MINORA SIDERA
MARCUS ARGENTARIUS
Pour
ten
Euphrante,
cups
for
slave, give
Lysidice,
me one
and
cup.
for
Thou
beloved
wilt say I
love Lysidice more ?
No, by sweet Bacchus, whom
Euphrante for me, one
I drink deep in this bowl
against ten ; yes, for the one light of the moon outshines the innumerable stars.
;
LIV
ROSA TRIPLEX
MELEAGER
Heliodora as Persuasion, and as the
Cyprian, and once more for her again as the sweetspeeched Grace; for she is enrolled as my one
goddess, whose beloved name I will mix and drink
Pour
in
for
unmixed wine.
LV
LOVE IN ABSENCE
MELEAGER
Pour, and again say, again, again,
Heliodora
say it and mingle the sweet name with the unmixed
wine and wreathe me with that garland of yesterday
drenched with ointments, for remembrance of her.
'
'
;
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Lo, the lovers' rose sheds tears to see her gone away,
and not on
my
bosom.
LVI
THE
sea's
wooing
MELEAGEll
Fond
woos
Asclepias with her sparkHng eyes as of Cahii
to make the voyage of love.
all
LVI I
THE TENTH MUSE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Four are the Graces, two the Paphians and ten the
Dercylis is among them all, Muse, Grace,
Muses
;
Paphian.
LVIII
THE LIGHT OF TROY
DIOSCORIDES
Athenion sang of that fatal horse to me all Troy
was afire, and I kindled along with it, not fearing the
ten years' toil of Greece
and in that single blaze
Trojans and I perished together then.
;
;
LIX
LOVE AND MUSIC
Sweet
playest
is
the
MELEAGER
tune, by Pan of Arcady,
that thou
on the harp, Zenophile, oversweet are the
LOVE
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Whither shall I fly from thee ?
hands the Loves encompass me, and let me
notes of the tune.
on
all
not take breath for ever so Uttle space for either thy
strikes longing into me, or again thy music or
thy graciousness, or
what shall I say ? all of thee ;
I kindle in the fire.
;
form
—
LX
HONEY AND STING
MELEAGER
Flower-fed bee, why touchest thou my Heliodora's
skin, leaving outright the flower-bells of spring?
Meanest thou that even the unendurable sting of
Love, ever bitter to the heart, has a sweetness too ?
Yes, I think, this thou sayest ; ah, fond one, go back
again ; we knew thy message long ago.
LXI
love's messenger
MELEAGER
Fly for me, O gnat, a swift messenger, touch
Zenophile and whisper lightly in her ears,
One
awaits thee waking, but thou sleepest, O oblivious of
thy lovers.'
Up, fly, yes fly, O musician; but speak
softly, lest arousing her bedfellow too thou stir pangs
of jealousy against me and if thou bring my girl, I
will adorn thee with a lion- skin, O gnat, and give
thee a club to carry in thine hand.
'
;
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LXII
LOVE THE SLAYER
MELEAGER
I
beseech thee, Love, charm asleep the wakeful
longing in me for Heliodora, pitying my suppliant
verse ; for, by thy bow that never has learned to strike
another, but ahvay upon me pours its winged shafts,
even though thou slay me I will leave letters uttering
Look, stranger, on Love's murdered
this voice,
'
man.'
LXIEI
FORSAKEN
MAECIUS
Why
and why, Philaenis, these
and suffusion of showerful
eyes ? hast thou seen thy lover with another on his
bosom ? tell me we know charms for grief. Thou
weepest and sayest no
vainly dost thou essay to
deny; the eyes are more trustworthy than the tongue.
so woe-begone
?
reckless tearings of hair,
;
:
LXIV
THE SLEEPLESS LOVER
MELEAGER
Grasshopper, beguilement of my longings, luller
grasshopper, muse of the cornfield, shrillwinged, native mimic of the lyre, harp to me some
asleep,
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tune of longing, striking thy vocal wings with thy
dear feet, that so thou mayest rescue me from the
all-wakeful trouble of my pains, grasshopper, as thou
makest thy love-luring voice tremble on the string
and I will give thee gifts at dawn, ever-fresh groundsel
and dewy drops sprayed from the mouths of the
watering-can.
LXV
REST AT NOON
MELEAGER
Voiceful cricket, drunken with drops of dew thou
playest thy rustic music that murmurs in the solitude,
and perched on the leaf-edges shrillest thy lyre-tune
with serrated legs and swart skin. Ah my dear,
utter a new song for the tree-nymphs' delight, and
make thy harp-notes echo to Pan's, that escaping
Love I may snatch sleep at noon, lying here under
the shady plane.
LXVI
THE BURDEN OF YOUTH
ASCLEPIADES
am
not two and twenty yet, and I am aweary of
living ; O Loves, why misuse me so ? why set me on
fire? for when I am gone, what will you do?
Doubtless, O Loves, as before you will play with
your dice, unheeding.
I
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LXVII
BROKEN VOWS
MELEAGER
O lamp, you and none other
our vows and we swore, he
that he would love me, and I that I would never
leave him, and you kept witness between us.
And
now he says that these vows are written in running
water, and thou, O lamp, seest him on the bosom of
Holy
we took
night,
and thou,
to witness of
;
another.
LXVIII
DOUBTFUL DAWN
MELEAGER
O
O
wakeful longing in me for Heliodora,
and eyes that sting with tears in the creeping grey of
dawn, do some remnants of affection yet remain mine,
and is her recording kiss warm upon my cold picture?
has she tears for bedfellows, and does she clasp to
her bosom and kiss a deluding dream of me
or has
she some other new love, a new plaything ?
Never,
O lamp, look thou on that, but be guardian of her
whom I gave to thy keeping.
night,
.''
LXIX
THE DEW OF TEARS
ASCLEPIADES
Stay there, my garlands, hanging by these doors,
nor hastily scattering your petals, you whom I have
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wetted with tears (for lovers' eyes are showery)
but
when you see him as the door opens, drip my rain
over his head, that so at least that golden hair may
drink my tears.
;
LXX
love's grave
MELEAGER
When
—
am
gone, Cleobulus
for what avails? cast
among the fire of young loves, I lie a brand in the
ashes
I pray thee make the burial-urn drunk with
wine ere thou lay it under earth, and write on it,
'
Love's gift to Death.'
I
—
LXX I
love's
masterdom
MELEAGER
Terrible is Love, terrible ; and what avails it if
again I say and again, with many a moan, Terrible
is Love ? for surely the boy laughs at this, and is
pleased with manifold reproaches ; and if I say bitter
things, they are meat and drink to him.
And I
wonder how thou, O Cyprian, who didst arise through
the green waves, out of water hast borne a fire.
'
'
LXXII
LOVE THE CONQUEROR
MELEAGER
I
am down
divinity
;
I
:
tread with thy foot on my neck, cruel
thee, by the Gods, heavy as thou
know
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art to bear
:
I
thy brands at
for
it is all
know
my
[sect,
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too thy fiery arrows but hurling
soul thou wilt no longer kindle it,
:
ashes.
LXXIII
love's prisoner
MELEAGER
not cry aloud to thee, O soul, Yes, by the
Cyprian, thou wilt be caught, poor lover, if thou
flutterest so often near the lime-twigs ? did I not cry
aloud? and the snare has taken thee. Why dost
thou gasp vainly in the toils? Love himself has
bound thy wings and set thee on the fire, and
sprinkled thee in thy swoon with perfumes, and given
thee for thy thirst hot tears to drink.
Did
I
'
'
LXXIV
FROST AND FIRE
MELEAGER
Ah
suffering soul,
and now thou
now thou
revivest,
why weepest thou
?
and
burnest in the
fire,
fetchest breath again
when thou
:
didst nurture pitiless
Love in thy bosom, knewest thou not that he was
being nurtured for thy woe ? knewest thou not ?
Know now his repayment, a fair foster-hire take it,
fire and cold snow together.
Thou wouldst have it
so
bear the pain
thou sufferest the wages of thy
work, scorched with his burning honey.
!
;
;
7l-7C>\
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29
LXXV
THE SCULPTOR OF SOULS
MELEAGER
Within my heart Love himself has moulded
Heliodora with her lovely voice, the soul of my soul.
LXXVI
love's immortality
STRATO
Who may know if a loved one passes the prime,
while ever with him and never left alone ? who may
not satisfy to-day who satisfied yesterday ? and if he
satisfy, what should befall him not to satisfy tomorrow ?
II
PRAYERS AND DEDICATIONS
TO ZEUS OF SCHERIA
JULIUS POLYAENUS
Though
the terror of those who pray, and the
thanks of those who have prayed, ever fill thine ears
with myriad voice,
Zeus who abidest in the holy
plain of Scheria, yet hearken to me also, and bow
down with a true promise that my exile now may
have an end, and I may live in my native land at rest
from labour of long journeys.
O
II
TO THE GOD OF THE SEA
CRINAGORAS
Holy
Shaker of Earth, be thou
gracious to others also who ply across the Aegean
brine ; since even for me, chased by the Thracian
hurricane, thou didst open out the calm havens to
my
Spirit of the great
joy.
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III
TO THE GOD OF HARBOUR AND HEADLAND
ANTIPHILUS
Founder and harbour-god, do thou,
O
blessed one,
send with a gentle breeze the outward-bound sail
down smooth water to the open sea and thou who
keepest the points of the shore, guard the voyager
;
for the Pythian shrine
;
all
we
cheerily
on
and thenceforward,
singers are in Phoebus' care,
I
will
sail
if
with a fair-flowing west wind.
IV
TO POSEIDON OF AEGAE
ALPHEUS
Thou who
holdest sovereignty of swift-sailing ships,
steed-loving god, and the great overhanging cliff of
Euboea, give to thy worshippers a favourable voyage
to the City of Ares, when they loose moorings from
Syria.
V
TO THE LORD OF SEA AND LAND
MACEDONIUS
This ship to thee, O king of sea and sovereign of
land, I Crantas dedicate, this ship wet no longer, a
feather tossed by the wandering winds, whereon many
a time I deemed in my terror that I drove to death
now renouncing all, fear and hope, sea and storms, I
have planted my foot securely upon earth.
;
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[sect. 2
VI
TO THE GODS OF SEA AND WEATHER
PHILODEMUS
O Melicerta son of Ino, and thou, sea-green
Leucothea, mistress of Ocean, deity that shieldest
from harm, and choirs of the Nereids, and waves,
and thou Poseidon, and Thracian Zephyrus, gentlest
of the winds, carry me propitiously, sped through the
broad wave, safe to the sweet shore of the Peiraeus.
vn
TO POSEIDON, BY A FISHERMAN
MACEDONIUS
Old Amyntichus tied his plummeted fishing-net
round his fish-spear, ceasing from his sea-toil, and
spake towards Poseidon and the salt surge of the
sea,
letting
a
tear
fall
from
his
eyelids
'
:
Thou
knowest, blessed one, I am weary ; and in an evil
old age, clinging Poverty keeps her youth and wastes
my limbs give sustenance to a poor old man while
he yet draws breath, but from the land, O ruler of
both earth and sea as thou wilt.'
;
VIII
TO PALAEMON AND INO
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
This broken fragment of a sea-wandering scolopendra, lying on the sandy shore, twice four fathom
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long, all befouled with froth,
much
33
torn under the
sea-washed rock, Hermonax chanced upon when he
was hauling a draught of fishes out of the sea as he
and having found it, he hung
plied his fisher's craft
;
it
up
to the
boy Palaemon and Ino, giving the
marvel to the
sea-
sea- deities.
IX
TO ARTEMIS OF THE FISHING-NETS
APOLLONIDES
A red mullet and a hake from the embers to thee,
Artemis of the Haven, I Menis the caster of nets
offer, and a brimming cup of wine mixed strong, and
a broken crust of dry bread, a poor man's sacrifice
in recompence whereof give thou nets ever filled with
prey ; to thee, O blessed one, all meshes have been
X
TO PRIAPUS OF THE SHORE
MAECIUS
Priapus of the seashore, the trawlers lay before
thee these gifts by the grace of thine aid from the
promontory, having imprisoned a tunny shoal in their
a
nets of spun hemp in the green sea-entrances
beechen cup and a rude stool of heath and a glass
cup holding wine, that thou mayest rest thy foot
weary and cramped with dancing while thou chasest
away the dry thirst.
.
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[sect. 2
XI
TO APOLLO OF LEUCAS
PHILIPPUS
Phoebus who holdest the sheer steep of Leucas,
far seen of mariners and washed by the Ionian sea,
receive of sailors this mess of hand-kneaded barleybread and a libation mingled in a little cup, and the
gleam of a brief-shining lamp that drinks with halfin recomsaturate mouth from a sparing oil-flask
pence whereof be gracious, and send on their sails
a favourable wind to run with them to the harbours
;
of Actium.
XII
TO ARTEMIS OF THE WAYS
ANTIPHILUS
Thou
of the Ways, to thee Antiphilus dedicates
this hat from his own head, a voucher of his wayfor thou wast gracious to his prayers, wast
faring
favouring to his paths ; and his thank-offering is small
;
Let not any greedy traveller's
indeed but sacred.
hand snatch our gift sacrilege is perilous even in
;
Uttle things.
XIII
TO THE TWIN BRETHREN
CALLIMACHUS
He
myself
w^ho
I
pence of
know
his
me
here, Euaenetus, says (for of
not) that I am dedicated in recomsingle-handed victory, I the cock of
set
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brass,
to the
Twin Brethren
;
I
35
beUeve the son of
Phaedrus the Philoxenid.
XIV
TO ARTEMIS THE HEALER
PHILIPPUS
Huntress and archer, maiden daughter of Zeus
and Leto, Artemis to whom are given the recesses
of the mountains, this very day send away beyond
the North Wind this hateful sickness from our most
noble lord for so above thine altars will Philippus
offer vapour of frankincense, doing goodly sacrifice
;
of a hill-pasturing boar.
XV
TO ASCLEPIUS
THEOCRITUS
Miletus came the son of the Healer to
succour the physician of diseases Nicias, who ever
day by day draws near him with offerings, and had
this image carved of fragrant cedar, promising high
recompence to Eetion for his cunning of hand and
he put all his art into the work.
Even
to
;
XVI
*
TO THE WATER NYMPHS
HERMOCREON
Water Nymphs, before whom Hermocreon laid these
gifts when he came on the bright-welling spring, fare
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[sect. 2
well, and may your lovely feet tread on this
watery house while you fill it with a pure draught.
you
XVII
TO PAN PAEAN
AUTHOR UNKNOW'N
This for thee, O pipe-player, minstrel, gracious
god, holy lord of the Naiads who pour their urns,
Hyginus made as a gift, whom thou,
protector,
didst draw nigh and make whole of his hard sickness ; for among all my children thou didst stand
by me visibly, not in a dream of night, but about the
mid-circle of the day.
O
xvni
TO HERACLES OF OETA
DIONYSIUS
who
on stony Trachis and on
Oeta and the deep brow of tree-clad Pholoe, to thee
Heracles
Dionysius offers
by him with
treadest
this
green
staff of
wild olive, cut off
his billhook.
XIX
TO APOLLO AND THE MUSES
THEOCRITUS
These dewy roses and yonder close-curled wild
thyme are laid before the maidens of Helicon, and
the dark-leaved laurels before thee, Pythian Healer,
since the Delphic rock made this thine ornament
and this white-horned he-goat shall stain the altar,
who nibbles the tip of the terebinth shoot.
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XX
TO APHRODITE OF THE GOLDEN HOUSE
MOERO
the golden portico of Aphrodite, O
grape-cluster filled full of Dionysus' juice, nor ever
more shall thy mother twine round thee her lovely
tendril or above thine head put forth her honeyed leaf.
Thou
liest in
XXI
TO APHRODITE, BY CALLISTION
POSIDIPPUS
Thou who
inhabitest
Miletus and the
come
lover
fair
Cyprus and Cythera and
plain of horse-trampled Syria,
who never turned
graciously to Callistion,
a
away from her kindly porch.
XXII
TO APHRODITE, BY LAIS
PLATO
exultant over Greece, I who
held that swarm of young lovers in my porches, lay
my mirror before the Paphian since such as I am
I will not see myself, and such as I was I cannot.
I
Lais
who laughed
;
XXIII
TO APHRODITE, WITH A TALISMAN
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Nico's wryneck, that knows to draw a man even
from overseas, and girls out of their weddingchambers, chased with gold, carven out of translucent
amethyst,
lies
before
thee,
Cyprian,
for
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[sect. 2
thine own possession, tied across the middle with
a soft lock of purple lamb's wool, the gift of the
sorceress of Larissa.
XXIV
TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Mother who goest about Dindymus and the hillspurs of fire-scarred Phrygia, mighty mistress, bring
little Aristodice, daughter of Silene, to ripeness for
wedding-chant and marriage, the term of her girlhood, for that she often in thy porches and by thine
altar shook loose her maiden hair.
XXV
TO APHRODITE EUPLOIA
GAETULICUS
Guardian of the seabeach, to thee
I send these
of a scanty sacrifice ; for tomorrow I shall cross the broad wave of the Ionian
sea, hastening to our Eidothea's arms.
Ah, shine
thou favourably on my love as on my mast,
Cyprian, mistress alike of the bride-chamber and
the beach.
and the
cakes,
gifts
O
XXVI
TO THE GOD OF CANOPUS
CALLIMACHUS
To
the god of Canopus Callistion, wife of Critias,
dedicates me, a lamp enriched with twenty wicks, in
payment of her vow for her child Apellis; and re-
garding
fallen,
O
my
splendours thou wilt say,
Evening Star
!
'
How
art
thou
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XXVII
TO
ISIS,
WITH A TRESS OF HAIR
PALLADAS
Instead of burnt-offering and dedicated gold Pamphilion lays these shining tresses before Isis ; and
the goddess is prouder of them than Apollo of the
gold that Croesus sent to the god out of Lydia.
XXVIII
TO HERACLES, WITH A SHIELD
HEGESIPPUS
Receive me,
O
Heracles, the consecrated shield
of Archestratus, that leaning against thy polished
portico I may grow old in hearing of dances and
hymns ; let the ^Var-God's hateful strife be satisfied.
XXIX
TO THE MILESIAN ARTEMIS
NICIAS
was destined, I also, one day to abandon the
hateful strife of Ares and hear the maiden choirs
around Artemis' temple, where Epixenus placed me
when white old age began to waste his limbs.
So
I
XXX
TO ATHENE ERGANE
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
The shuttle that sang at morning with the earliest
swallows' cry, kingfisher of Pallas' loom, and the
heavy-headed twirling spindle, light-running spinner
40
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[sect. 2
of the twisted yarn, and the bobbins, and this basket,
spun warp-thread
and the reel, Telesilla, the industrious daughter of
good Diocles, dedicates to the Maiden, mistress of
friend to the distaff, keeper of the
wool-dressers.
XXXI
TO THE ORCHARD GOD
ZONAS
This fresh-cloven pomegranate and fresh-downed
quince, and the wrinkled navel-fig, and the purple
grape-bunch spirting wine, thick-clustered, and the
nut fresh-stripped of its green husk, to this rustic
staked Priapus the keeper of the fruit dedicates, an
offering from his orchard trees.
XXXII
TO DEMETER AND THE SEASONS
ZONAS
To Demeter
of the winnowing-fan and the Seasons
whose feet are in the furrows Heronax lays here from
a poor little plough-land their share of ears from the
threshing-floor, and these mixed seeds of pulse on
a slabbed table, the least of a little ; for no great
inheritance is this he has gotten him, here on the
barren hill.
XXXIII
TO THE CORN GODDESS
PHILIPPUS
These handfuls of corn from the furrows of a tiny
field,
Demeter lover of wheat, Sosicles the tiller
dedicates to thee, having reaped now an abundant
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again likewise may he carry back his sickle
;
blunted from shearing of the straw.
harvest
XXXIV
TO THE GODS OF THE FARM
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
To Pan of the goats and fruitful Dionysus and
Demeter Lady of Earth I dedicate a common offering,
and beseech of them fair fleeces and fair wine and
fair fruit
of the corn-ears in
my
reaping.
XXXV
TO THE WEST WIND
BACCHYLIDES
Eudemus
dedicates this shrine in the fields to
Zephyrus, most bountiful of the winds, who came
to aid him at his prayer, that he might right quickly
winnow the grain from the ripe ears.
XXXVI
TO PAN OF THE FOUNTAIN
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
We supplicate Pan, the goer on the cliffs, twyhorned leader of the Nymphs, who abides in this
house of rock, to be gracious to us, whosoever come
to this spring of ever-flowing drink to rid us of our
thirst.
XXXVII
TO PAN AND THE NYMPHS
ANYTE
To
bristly-haired
farm-yard,
Pan, and the
Nymphs
Theodotus the shepherd
lays
of the
this
gift
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[sect. 2
under the crag, because they stayed him when very
weary under the parching summer, holding out to
him honey-sweet water in their hands.
XXXVIII
TO THE SHEPHERD GOD
THEOCRITUS
Daphnis,
White- skinned
the
player of pastoral
these to Pan, the
pierced reeds, the stick for throwing at hares, a
sharp javelin and a fawn-skin, and the scrip wherein
once he carried apples.
hymns on
his
fair
pipe,
offers
XXXIX
.
TO PAN, BY A HUNTER, A FOWLER, AND
A FISHER
ARCHIAS
To
Pan
three brethren dedicate
threefold ensnaring
Damis toils for wild beasts, and Pigres springes for
birds, and Cleitor nets that swim in the sea ; whom
do thou yet again make fortunate, one in the air, and
one in the sea and one among the oakwoods.
these
thee.
various
of the
gifts
of
cliff,
their
XL
TO ARTEMIS OF THE OAKWOOD
MNASALCAS
This to
Artemis the bright, this statue
Cleonymus set up ; do thou overshadow this oakwood rich in game, where thou goest afoot, our lady.
thee,
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over the mountain tossing with fohage, as thou hastest
with thy terrible and eager hounds.
XLI
TO THE GODS OF THE CHASE
CRINAGORAS
Fountained caverns of the
Nymphs
that drip so
much
water down this jagged headland, and echoing
hut of pine-coronalled Pan, wherein he dwells under
the feet of the rock of Bassae, and stumps of aged
juniper sacred among hunters, and stone-heaped
seats of Hermes, be gracious and receive the spoils
of the swift stag-chase from Sosander prosperous in
hunting.
XLII_
TO ARCADIAN ARTEMIS
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
This deer, that fed about Ladon and the Erymanthian water and the ridges of Pholoe haunted by
wild beasts, Lycormas son of Thearidas of Lasion
got, striking her with the diamond-shaped butt of his
spear, and, drawing off the skin and the doublepointed antlers on her forehead, laid them before the
Maiden of the country.
XLIII
TO APOLLO, WITH A HUNTER'S BOW
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
Androclus, O Apollo, gives this bow to thee, wherewith in the chase striking many a beast he had luck
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since never did the arrow leap astray
in his aim
from the curved horn or speed vainly from his hand
:
bowstring rang, so often
for as often as the inevitable
he brought down his prey in air or thicket wherefore to thee, O Phoebus, he brings this Lyctian
weapon as an offering, having clasped it round with
;
rings of gold.
XLIV
TO PAN OF THE SHEPHERDS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
O Pan, utter thy holy voice to the feeding flocks,
running thy curved lip over the golden reeds, that so
they may often bring gifts of white milk in heavy
udders to Clymenus' home, and for thee the lord of
the she-goats, standing adorned by thine altars, may
spirt the red blood from his shaggy breast.
XLV
TO THE GOD OF ARCADY
AGATHIAS
unsown domains, O Pan of the hill,
Stratonicus the ploughman dedicates to thee in return
of thy good deeds, saying,
Feed in joy thine own
flocks and look on thine own land, never more to be
These
'
shorn with bronze ; thou wilt find the resting-place a
gracious one for here charmed Echo will likewise
fulfil her marriage with thee.'
;
Ill
EPITAPHS
I
ON THE ATHENIAN DEAD AT PLATAEA
SIMONIDES
If to die nobly is the chief part of excellence, to us
out of all men Fortune gave this lot for hastening
to set a crown of freedom on Hellas, we lie possessed
of praise that grows not old.
;
II
ON THE LACEDAEMONIAN DEAD AT PLATAEA
SIMONIDES
These men having set a crown of imperishable
glory on their own land were folded in the dark cloud
of death
yet being dead they have not died, since
from on high their excellence raises them gloriously
out of the house of Hades.
v
;
III
ON THE SPARTANS AT THERMOPYLAE
PARMENIO
Him, who over changed paths of earth and sea
sailed on the mainland and went afoot upon the
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[sect. 3
deep, Spartan valour held back on three hundred
spears ; be ashamed, O mountains and seas.
IV
ON THE SAME
SIMONIDES
O passer by, tell the Lacedaemonians that we
here obeying their orders.
lie
V
ON THE DEAD
IN
AN UNKNOWN BATTLE
MNASALCAS
These men,
saving their native land that lay
with tearful fetters on her neck, clad themselves in
the dust of darkness ; and they win great praise of
excellence ; looking on them, let a citizen have
in
courage to die for his countrj'.
VI
ON THE DEFENDERS OF TEGEA
SIMONIDES
Through
these men's valour the smoke of the
burning of wide-floored Tegea went not up to heaven,
who chose to leave the city glad and free to their
children, and themselves to die in forefront of the
battle.
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VII
ON THE DEAD
BATTLE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
IN A
IN
BOEOTIA
O Time, all surveying deity of the manifold things
wrought among mortals, carry to all men the message
,of our fate, that striving to save the holy soil of
Greece we die on the renowned Boeotian plains.
VIII
ON A SLAIN WARRIOR
ANACREON
Valiant in war was Timocritus, whose monument
this is ; but Ares spares the coward, not the brave.
IX
ON THE SLAIN
IN A BATTLE IN THESSALY
AESCHYLUS
These men
among spears, dark
Fate destroyed as they defended their native land
rich in sheep
but they being dead their glory is
alive, who woefully clad their limbs in the dust of
also, the steadfast
;
Ossa.
ON THE ATHENIAN DEAD AT THE BATTLE
OF CHALCIS
SIMONIDES
We
is
under the fold of Dirphys, and a memorial
reared over us by our country near the Euripus,
fell
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[sect. 3
for we lost lovely youth facing the
not unjustly
rough cloud of war.
;
XI
ON THE ERETRIAN EXILES
IN PERSIA
PLATO
We who
of old left the booming surge of the
Aegean lie here in the mid-plain of Ecbatana fare
thou well, renowned Eretria once our country, farewell Athens nigh to Euboea, farewell dear sea.
:
XII
ON THE SAME
PLATO
We
Euboea by blood, but we
how far from our own land.
are Eretrians of
near Susa, alas
!
lie
XIII
ON AESCHYLUS
AESCHYLUS
Aeschylus son of Euphorion the Athenian this
monument hides, who died in wheat-bearing Gela
but of his approved valour the Marathonian grove
may tell, and the deep-haired Mede who knew it.
XIV
ON AN EMPTY TOMB
IN TRACHIS
EUPHORION
Not rocky Trachis covers over thy white bones,
nor this stone with her dark-blue lettering ; but them
•
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49
the Icarian wave dashes about the shingle of DoHche
and steep Dracanon and I, tliis empty earth, for old
friendshij) with Polymedes, am heaped among the
thirsty herbage of Dryopis.
;
ON
XV
GRAVE AT MERGE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
'A
Straight is the descent to Hades, whether thou
wert to go from Athens or takest thy journey from
Meroe let it not vex thee to have died so far away
from home ; from all lands the wind that blows to
Hades is but one.
;
XVI
ON A GRAVE AT CYZICUS
ERYCIUS
an Athenian woman ; for that was my city ;
but from Athens the wasting War-god of the Italians
took me for spoil long ago and made a Roman
citizen ; and now that I am dead, seagirt Cyzicus
wraps my bones.
Fare thou well, O land that
nurturedst me, and thou that thereafter didst hold
me, and thou that at last hast taken me to thy breast.
I
am
XVII
ON A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
PLATO
am
tomb
of one
shipwrecked ; and that
me, of a husbandman ; for a common
Hades lies beneath sea and earth.
I
the
opposite
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[sect. 3
XVIII
ON THE SAME
PLATO
Well be with you, O mariners, both at sea and on
land ; but know that you pass by the grave of a
shipwrecked man.
XIX
ON THE SAME
THEODORIDES
am
the tomb of one shipwrecked ; but sail thou ;
for even while we perished, the other ships sailed on
I
over the sea.
XX
ON THE SAME
LEOXIDAS OF TARENTUINI
May
the seafarer have a prosperous voyage ; but
me, the gale drive him into the harbours of
if, like
Hades, let him blame not the inhospitable sea-gulf,
but his own foolhardiness, that loosed moorings from
our tomb.
XXI
ON THE SAME
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Mariner, ask not whose tomb
own fortune a kinder sea.
thine
I
am
here, but
be
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XXII
ON THE SAME
CALLIMACHUS
What
stranger,
O
shipwrecked
man ?
Leontichus
me
here a corpse on the shore, and heaped
this tomb over me, with tears for his own calamitous
for neither is he at peace, but flits like a gull
life
over the sea.
found
:
XXIII
ON THE EMPTY TOMB OF ONE LOST AT SEA
GLAUCUS
Not dust nor the
light weight of a stone, but all
thou beholdest is the tombof Erasippus;
for he perished with his ship, and in some unknown
place his bones moulder, and the sea-gulls alone
this sea that
know them
to
tell.
XXIV
ON THE SAME
'
SIMONIDES
Cloudcapt Geraneia, cruel steep, would thou hadst
looked on far Ister and long Scythian Tanais, and
not lain nigh the surge of the Scironian sea by the
ravines of the snowy Meluriad rock
but now he is a
:
corpse in ocean, and the empty
aloud of his heavy voyage.
chill
tomb here
cries
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[sect. 3
XXV
ON THE SAME
DAMAGETUS
Thymodes also, weeping over unlooked-for woes,
reared this empty tomb to Lycus his son ; for not
even in a strange land did he get a grave, but some
Thynian headland or Pontic island holds him, where,
forlorn of all funeral rites, his shining bones lie naked
on an inhospitable shore.
XXVI
ON THE SAME
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
A
rough and steep-down squall out of the East,
and the waves of the gloomy setting of
Orion were my bane, and I Callaeschrus lost my
hold of life as I sped through the mid Libyan sea
so I am rolled drifting in ocean, to be the prey of
fishes, and this stone says falsely that it is over me.
and
night,
:
XXVII
ON A SAILOR DROWNED
IN
HARBOUR
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
Everywhere the sea is the sea ; why idly blame we
the Cyclades or the narrow wave of Helle and the
Needles ? in vain have they their fame ; or why when
I had escaped them did the harbour of Scarphe whelm
me ? Pray whoso will for a fair passage home ; that
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the sea's
way
is
S3
the sea, Aristagoras
knows who
is
buried here.
XXVIII
ON ARISTON OF CYRENE, LOST AT SEA
THEAETETUS
•
Ariston of Cyrene prays you
of Zeus the Protector, to tell his
father Meno that he lies by the Icarian rocks, having
given up the ghost in the Aegean sea.
sailing mariners,
all,
in the
name
XXIX
ON BITON OF AMPHIPOLIS, LOST AT SEA
NICAENETUS
the grave of Biton, O wayfarer and if leav1
ing Torone thou goest even to Amphipolis, tell
Nicagoras that the wind from Strymon at the setting
of the Kids lost him his only son.
am
;
XXX
ON POLYANTHUS OF TORONE, LOST AT SEA
PHAEDIMUS
bewail Polyanthus, O thou who passest by, whom
Aristagore his wife laid newly-wedded in the grave,
having received dust and bones (but him the illI
when
at
the fishermen drew his luckless corpse,
stranger, into the harbour of Torone.
O
blown Aegean wave
early
dawn
cast
away
off Sciathus),
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XXXI
ON A WAYSIDE TOMB
NICIAS
beneath the poplars here, wayfarer, when thou
art weary, and drawing nigh drink of our spring
and even far away remember the fountain that Simus
sets by the side of Gillus his dead child.
Sit
XXXII
ON THE CHILDREN OF NICANDER AND
This
is
the
LYSIDICE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
single tomb of Nicander's
light of a single
children; the
morning ended the sacred offspring
of Lysidice.
XXXIII
ON A BABY
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Me a baby that was just tasting life
heaven snatched
not whether for good or for evil ; insatiable Death, why hast thou snatched me cruelly in
Why hurriest thou ? Are we not all thine
infancy ?
in the end ?
away,
I
know
XXXIV
ON A CHILD OF FIVE
LUCIAN
Me
knew
Callimachus, a five-years-old child whose spirit
not grief, pitiless Death snatched away; but
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weep thou not
life, and little in
for
me
;
for little
55
was
my
share in
life's ills.
XXXV
ON A CHILD OF SEVEN
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Hermes messenger of Persephone, whom usherest
thou thus to the iaughterless abyss of Death ? A
cruel fate snatched Ariston from the fresh air at seven
years old, and the child lies between his parents.
Pluto delighting in tears, are not all mortal spirits
allotted to thee? why dost thou strip the unripe
grapes of youth
?
XXXVI
ON A BOY OF TWELVE
CALLIMACHUS
Philip his father laid here the twelve-years-old child,
his high hope, Nicoteles.
XXXVII
ON CLEOETES
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Looking on the monument of a dead boy, Cleoetes
who was so beautiful
and died.
son of Menesaechmus, pity him
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XXXVIII
ON A BEAUTIFUL BOY
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Not death
is
bitter,
since that
is
predestinate for
but to die ere the time and before our parents
I having seen not marriage nor wedding-chant nor
bridal bed, lie here the love of many, and to be the
love of more.
all,
:
XXXIX
ON A BOY OF NINETEEN
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Bidding hail to me, Diogenes beneath the earth,
go about thy business and obtain thy desire for at
nineteen years old I was laid low by cruel sickness
;
and leave the sweet
sun.
XL
ON A SON, BY HIS FATHER
PHANIAS
dust, a monument not for
a father but for his grief over a much-wept child,
entombing but the name, since the relics of hapless
Mantitheus came not beneath the hand of his parents.
Lysis heaped this
empty
XLI
ON A SON, BY HIS MOTHER
DIOTIMUS
What
profits
bear children
?
it
let
to labour in childbirth?
not her bear
who must
what
to
see her
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child's
death
;
to
for
stripling
57
Bianor his mother
reared the tonib ; but it was fitting that the mother
should obtain this service of the son.
XLII
ON A GIRL
CALLIMACHUS
The daughters of the Samians often require
Crethis the teller of tales, who knew pretty games,
sweetest of workfellows, ever talking ; but she sleeps
here the sleep to which they all must come.
XLIII
ON A BETROTHED GIRL
ERINNA
of Baucis the bride ; passing by my oft-wept
pillar thou mayest say this to Death that dwells under
ground, Thou art envious, O Death ; and they who
see this monument will tell of the most bitter fortune
of Bauco, how her father-in-law burned the girl on
the funeral pyre with those torches by whose light
the marriage train was to be led home ; and thou,
I
am
'
'
Hymenaeus,
didst
change the tuneable bridal song
into a voice of wailing dirges.
XLIV
ON THE SAME
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Ausonian earth holds me a woman of Libya, and
a maiden here by the sea-sand near Rome and
1 lie
;
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Pompeia, who nurtured me like a daughter, wept over
me and laid me in a free tomb, while hastening on
that other torch-fire for me
but this one came first,
and contrary to our prayers Persephone lit the lamp.
;
XLV
ON A SINGING-GIRL
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Blue-eyed Musa, the
suddenly this little grave
lies like a stone who was
famous fair Musa, be this
;
sweet-voiced nightingale,
holds voiceless, and she
so accomplished and so
dust light over thee.
XLVI
ON CLAUDIA HOMONOEA
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
I Homonoea, who was far clearer-voiced than the
Sirens, I who was more golden than the Cyprian
at revellings and feasts, I the chattering
bright swallow lie here, leaving tears to Atimetus, to
herself
whom
I
was dear from girlhood
scattered
all
;
but unforeseen fate
that great affection.
XLVII
ON PAULA OF TAKEN TUM
DIODORUS
Bear witness this my stone house of night that has
hidden me, and the wail-circled water of Cocytus, my
husband did not, as men say, kill me, his eyes set on
marriage with another ; why should Rufinius have an
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idly ? but my predestined Fates lead me
not surely is Paula of Tarentum the only one
has died before her day.
name
ill
away
who
;
XLVIII
ON A MOTHER, DEAD IN CHILDBIRTH
DIODORUS
These woeful
letters of
Diodorus' wisdom
tell
that
one early dead in childbirth, since
she perished in bearing a boy and I weep to hold
Athenais the comely daughter of Melo, who left
grief to the women of Lesbos and her father Jason
but thou, O Artemis, wert busy with thy beast-slaying
I
was engraven
for
;
hounds.
XLIX
ON A MOTHER OF EIGHTEEN, AND HER BABY
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Name me Polyxena wife of Archelaus, child of
Theodectes and hapless Demarete, and a mother as
but fate overtook the child
;
twenty suns, and myself died at eighteen
far as the birth-pangs
before
full
years, just a
all
my
mother and
just a bride, so brief
was
day.
ON A YOUNG WIFE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
To
his wife Paulina, holy of life and blameless,
died at nineteen years, Andronicus the physician
paying memorial placed this witness the last of all.
who
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[sect. 3
LI
ON ATTHIS OF CNIDOS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Atthis
who
didst live for
me and
breathe thy
last
toward me, source of joyfulness formerly as now of
tears, holy, much lamented, how sleepest thou the
mournful sleep, thou whose head was never laid
away from thy husband's breast, leaving Theius alone
as one who is no more ; for with thee the hopes of
our life went to darkness.
LII
ON PREXO, WIFE OF THEOCRITUS OF SAMOS
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Who
and of
whom
art thou,
O
woman,
that liest
Parian column ?
Prexo, daughter of
Calliteles.
And of what country ? Of Samos. And
also who buried thee ?
Theocritus, to whom my
parents gave me in marriage.
And of what diedst
thou? In childbirth. How old? Two-and-twenty.
And childless ? Nay, but I left a three-years-old
under the
Calliteles.
old age.
all
May he live at least and come to great
And to thee, O stranger, may Fortune give
prosperity.
LIII
ON AMAZONIA OF THESSALONICA
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Why
idly
bemoaning
linger
nothing worthy of lamentation
you by my tomb ?
mine among the
is
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6i
dead.
Cease from plaints and be at rest, O husband,
and you, my children, fare well, and keep the memory
of Amazonia.
LIV
ON A LACEDAEMONIAN NURSE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
earth holds the Peloponnesian woman who
the most faithful nurse of the children of
Diogeitus.
Here
was
LV
ON A LYDIAN SLAVE
DIOSCORIDES
A
am
yes a Lydian, but in a free tomb,
my master, thou didst lay thy fosterer Timanthes
prosperously mayest thou lengthen out an unharmed
life, and if under the hand of old age thou shalt come
to me, I am thine, O master, even in the grave.
Lydian
I,
O
LVI
ON A PERSIAN SLAVE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Even now beneath
the earth I abide faithful to
yes my master, as before, forgetting not thy
kindness, in that then thou broughtest me thrice out
of sickness to safe foothold, and now didst lay me
here beneath sufficient shelter, calling me by name,
Manes the Persian and for thy good deeds to me
thou shalt have servants readier at need.
thee,
;
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[sect. 3
LVII
ON A FAVOURITE DOG
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Thou who
mark
it is
this
passest on the
monument, laugh
a dog's grave
;
path,
if
haply thou dost
though
me, and the dust was
not, I pray thee,
tears fell for
me by a master's hands,
engraved these words on my tomb.
heaped above
who
likewise
LVII I
ON A MALTESE WATCH-DOG
TYMNES
Here the stone
holds the white dog from
guardian of Eumelus ; Bull
they called him while he was yet alive ; but now his
voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of night.
Melita, the
most
says
it
faithful
LIX
ON A GRASSHOPPER
PHAENNUS
On
Democritus would
I the grasshopper draw deep
loose shrill music from my wings
and Democritus over me when I was dead reared this
fitting tomb,
wayfarer, nigh to Oropus.
sleep
when
I
let
;
O
LX
ON A TAME PARTRIDGE
AGATHIAS
No
longer, poor partridge migrated from the rocks,
does thy woven house hold thee in
its
thin withies,
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nor under the sparkle of fresh-faced Dawn dost thou
up the edges of thy basking wings the cat bit
off thy head, but the rest of thee I snatched away,
and she did not fill her greedy jaw and now may
the earth cover thee not lightly but heavily, lest she
drag out thy remains.
ruffle
;
;
LXI
ON A THESSALIAN HOUND
SIMONIDES
Surely even as thou liest dead in this tomb I deem
the wild beasts yet fear thy white bones, huntress
Lycas ; and thy valour great Pelion knows 'and
splendid Ossa and the lonely peaks of Cithaeron.
LXII
ON CHARIDAS OF CYRENE
CALLIMACHUS
Does Charidas in truth sleep beneath thee? If
thou meanest the son of Arimmas of Cyrene, beneath
me. O Charidas, what of the under world ? Great
darkness.
And Pluto
And what
?
A
fable
;
of the resurrection
we perish utterly.
?
A
lie.
LXIII
ON THEOGNIS OF SINOPE
SIMONIDES
am the monument of Theognis of Sinope,
whom Glaucus set me in guerdon of their
I
fellowship.
over
long
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[sect. 3
LXIV
ON A DEAD FRIEND
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
This little^ stone, good Sabinus, is the record of
our great friendship; ever will I require thee; and
thou, if it is permitted among the dead, drink not
of the water" of Lethe for me.
LXV
ON AN UNHAPPY MAN
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
I Dionysius of Tarsus lie here at sixty, having never
married ; and I would that my father had not.
LXVI
ON A CRETAN MERCHANT
SIMONIDES
Brotachus of Gortyna, a Cretan, lie here, not
having come hither for this, but for traffic.
I
LXVII
ON SAON OF ACANTHUS
CALLIMACHUS
Here Saon, son of Dicon of Acanthus,
holy sleep say not that the good die.
;
rests in
a
IV
LITERATURE AND ART
I
THE GROVE OF THE MUSES
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Say thou
is consecrate to the Muses,
pointing to the books by the plane-trees, and that we
guard it ; and if a true lover of ours come hither, we
crown him with our ivy.
that this grove
II
THE VOICE OF THE WORLD
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
The herald of the prowess of heroes and interpreter
of the immortals, a second sun on the life of Greece,
Homer, the light of the Muses, the ageless mouth of
all the world, lies hid,
stranger, under the seawashed sand.
O
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III
THE TALE OF TROY
ALPHEUS
the wail of Andromache, still we see
all Troy toppling from her foundations, and the
battling of Ajax, and Hector, bound to the chariothorses, dragged under the city's crown of towers,
through the Muse of Maeonides, the poet with whom
no one country adorns herself as her own, but the
zones of both worlds.
Still
we hear
IV
ORPHEUS
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
No longer, Orpheus, wilt thou lead the charmed
oaks, no longer the rocks nor the lordless herds of
the wild beasts ; no longer wilt thou lull the roaring
of the winds, nor hail and sweep of snowstorms nor
dashing sea; for thou perishedst; and the daughters
of Mnemosyne wept sore for thee, and thy mother
Why do we mourn over sons
Calliope above all.
deceased, when not even gods avail to ward off
Death from their children ?
V
SAPPHO
POSIDIPPUS
Doricha, long ago thy bones are dust, and the
ribbon of thy hair and the raiment scented with
unguents, wherein once wrapping lovely Charaxus
round thou didst cling to him, carousing into dawn ;
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but the white leaves of the dear ode of Sappho
remain yet and shall remain speaking thine adorable
name, which Naucratis shall keep here so long as a
sea-going ship shall come to the lagoons of Nile.
VI
ERINNA
(l)
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Thee, as thou wert just giving birth to a springhoneyed songs and just finding thy swan-voice,
Fate, mistress of the threaded spindle, drove to
Acheron across the wide water of the dead; but the
fair labour of thy verses, Erinna, cries that thou art
not perished, but keepest mingled choir with the
tide of
Maidens of
Pieria.
VII
ERINNA
(2)
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
The young maiden singer Erinna, the bee among
who sipped the flowers of the Muses, Hades
poets,
snatched away to be his bride ; truly indeed said the
her wisdom, 'Thou art envious, O Death.'
girl in
VIII
anacreon's grave
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
O
Stranger
who
pour libation over
of wine.
tomb
passest this the
me
in
going by
(i)
;
for I
of Anacreon,
am a drinker
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IX
ANACREON'S GRAVE
(2)
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
Stranger who passest by the humble tomb of
Anacreon, if thou hast had aught of good from my
books pour libation on my ashes, pour libation of the
jocund grape, that my bones may rejoice wetted with
wine ; so I, who was ever deep in the wine-steeped
revels of Dionysus, I who was bred among drinking
tunes, shall not even when dead endure without
Bacchus this place to which the generation of mortals
must come.
X
PINDAR
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
As high
as the trumpet's blast outsounds the thin
so high above all others did thy lyre ring
nor
idly did the tawny swarm mould their waxen-celled
Pindar, about thy tender lips witness the
honey,
flute,
;
O
:
horned god of Maenalus when he sang thy hymn
and
forgot his
own
pastoral reeds.
XI
THESPIS
DIOSCORIDES
1
am
Thespis
who
first
shaped the
strain of tragedy,
making new partition of fresh graces among the
masquers when Bacchus would lead home the winestained chorus, for whom a goat and a basket of Attic
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was as yet the prize
in contests.
A younger
reshape all this and infinite time will
more inventions yet but mine are mine.
;
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race
make many
;
XII
SOPHOCLES
SIMMIAS
Gently over the tomb of Sophocles, gently creep,
O ivy, flinging forth thy green tresses, and all about
let the rose-petal blow, and the clustered vine shed
her soft tendrils round, for the sake of the wisehearted eloquence mingled of the Muses and Graces
that lived on his honeyed tongue.
XIII
EURIPIDES
THUCVDIDES
All Hellas
is
the
monument
of Euripides
;
Mace-
donian earth holds his bones, where his life reached
its goal, but his native land was the Hellas of Hellas,
Athens ; and having given most delight by his Muses,
he has praise likewise of many.
XIV
ARISTOPHANES
PLATO
The
Graces, seeking to take a sanctuary that will
not fall, found the soul of Aristophanes.
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XV
RHINTHO
NOSSIS
With a ringing laugh and a friendly word over me
do thou pass by I am Rhintho of Syracuse, a small
nightingale of the Muses
but from our tragical
mirth we plucked an ivy of our own.
;
;
XVI
MELEAGER
(l)
MELEAGER
O
for here an old man
;
holy dead, lulled in the slumber due
to all, Meleager son of Eucrates, who united Love of
the sweet tears and the Muses with the joyous Graces;
whom God-begotten Tyre brought to manhood, and
the sacred land of Gadara, but lovely Cos nursed in
old age among the Meropes.
Now if thou art a
Syrian, Salam, and if a Phoenician, Naidios^ and if a
Greek, Fare well; and say thou the same.
Tread
sleeps
softly,
stranger
among the
XVII
MELEAGER
(2)
MELEAGER
Island Tyre was my nurse ; and the Attic land
lies in Syrian Gadara is the country of my
birth
and I sprang of Eucrates, I Meleager, the
companion of the Muses, first of all who have run
that
;
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by side with the Graces of Menippus. And
a Syrian, what wonder? We all dwell in
one Chaos
one country, O stranger, the world
brought all mortals to birth. And when stricken in
years, I inscribed this on my tablets before burial,
since he who has old age for neighbour is nigh to
death do thou, bidding hail to me, the aged talker,
thyself reach a talking old age.
side
if
I
am
;
;
XVIII
PYLADES THE HARP-PLAYER
ALCAEUS OF MESSENE
All Greece bewails thee departed, Pylades, and
cuts short her unbraided hair; even Phoebus himself laid aside the laurels from his unshorn tresses,
honouring his own minstrel as was meet, and the
Muses wept, and Asopus stayed his stream, hearing
the cry from their wailing lips
ceased from dancing
iron path of Death.
;
when thou
and Dionysus'
didst pass
halls
down
the
XIX
THE DEATH OF MUSIC
LEONTIUS
When Orpheus
left,
was gone, a Muse was yet haply
but when thou didst perish, Plato, the harp
for until then there yet lived some
fragment of the old melodies, saved in thy soul
and hands.
likewise ceased
little
;
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XX
APOLLO AND MARSYAS
[SECT. 4
(l)
ALCAEUS OF MESSENE
No more
shalt thou
through pine-clad
make melody,
Phrygia, as of old,
uttering thy notes through
the pierced reeds, nor in thy hands as before shall
the workmanship of Tritonian Athena flower forth,
nymph-born Satyr; for thy hands are bound tight
in gyves, since being mortal thou didst join immortal
strife with Phoebus ; and the flutes, that cried as
honey-sweet as his harp, gained thee from the contest no crown but death.
XXI
APOLLO AND MARSYAS
(2)
ARCHIAS
Thou hangest high where the winds lash thy wild
body, O wretched one, swinging from a shaggy pine
thou hangest high, for thou didst stand up to strife
against Phoebus,
O
Satyr,
dweller on the
of
cliff"
Celaenae and we nymphs shall no longer as before
hear the honey-sounding cry of thy flute on the
Phrygian hills.
;
XXII
GLAPHYRUS THE FLUTE-PLAYER
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Phoebus
said over clear-voiced Glaphyrus as he
breathed desire through the pierced lotus-pipes, O
Marsyas, thou didst tell false of thine invention, for
this is he who carried off Athena's flutes out of
'
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if thou hadst blown then in such as
Hyagnis would not have wept that strife by
Maeander where the flute was vanquished.'
Phrygia; and
his,
XXIII
VIOL
AND PXUTE
THEOCRITUS
Wilt thou for the Muses' sake play me somewhat
of sweet on thy twin flutes? and I lifting the harp
will begin to make music on the strings ; and Daphnis the neatherd will mingle enchantment with tuneable breath of the wax-bound pipe ; and thus standing
nigh within the fringed cavern mouth, let us rob
sleep from Pan the lord of the goats.
XXIV
POPULAR SONGS
LUCILIUS
Eutychides, the writer of songs, is dead; flee, O
you under earth
Eutychides is coming with his
odes he left instructions to burn along with him
twelve lyres and twenty-five boxes of airs.
Now the
bitterness of death has come upon you
whither
may one retreat in future, since Eutychides fills
!
;
;
Hades too ?
XXV
CALAMUS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
I the reed was a useless plant
for out of me grow
not figs nor apple nor grape-cluster but man consecrated me in the mysteries of Helicon, piercing my
;
;
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and making me the channel of a narrow
and thenceforth, whenever I sip black drink,
delicate lips
stream
;
one inspired
mouth.
like
I
speak
all
words with
this voiceless
XXVI
IN
THE CLASSROOM
CALLIMACHUS
Simus son of Miccus, giving me to the Muses,
asked for himself learning, and they, like Glaucus,
gave a great gift for a little one and I lean gaping
up against this double letter of the Samian, a tragic
;
Dionysus, listening
repeat
Holy
the
to
little
is the hair, telling
boys,
while they
me my own
dream.
XXVII
THE POOR SCHOLAR
ARISTON
O
you are come
after bread, go to another
cupboard (for we live in a humble cottage) where
you will feed daintily on rich cheese and dried
raisins, and make an abundant supper off the scraps
but if you sharpen a tooth again on my books and
come in with your graceless rioting, you shall re-
mice,
if
;
pent
it.
XXVIII
THE PHAEDO OF PLATO
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
me, there were two Platos
But
the flowers of Socratic talk.
If Plato did not write
I
carry in
me
all
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concluded the soul
me
to
75
yes, he who
to be spurious
be mortal will conclude me
;
spurious as well.
XXIX
CLEOMBROTUS OF AMBRACIA
CALLIMACHUS
Saying,
'Farewell,
O
sun,'
Cleombrotus of
Am-
bracia leaped off a high wall to Hades, having seen
no evil worthy of death, but only having read that
one writing of
Plato's
on the
soul.
XXX
THE DEAD SCHOLAR
CALLIMACHUS
One
me
fate, Heraclitus, and wrung
remembered how often both of
us let the sun sink as we talked but thou, methinks,
O friend from Halicarnassus, art ashes long and long
ago yet thy nightingale- notes live, whereon Hades
me
told
to tears,
of thy
and
I
;
;
the ravisher of
all
things shall not lay his hand.
XXXI
ALEXANDRIANISM
CALLIMACHUS
poem, nor do I delight in a road
that carries many hither and thither
I detest, too,
a gadabout charmer, and I drink not from the founI hate the cyclic
;
tain
;
I
loathe everything popular.
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XXXII
SPECIES AETERNITATIS
PTOLEMAEUS
know that I am mortal and ephemeral; but
when I scan the multitudinous circling spirals of the
I
no longer do I touch earth with my feet, but
with Zeus himself, and take my fill of the ambrosial food of gods.
stars,
sit
XXXIII
THE PASTORAL POETS
ARTEMIDORUS
The
pastoral
Muses, once scattered, now are
all
a single flock in a single fold.
XXXIV
ON THE PORTRAIT OF A GIRL
ERINNA
From
subtle hands
came
this
Prometheus, there are even
;
;
O
Master
thine equals in
portrayed this maiden to the life,
yea, whoso
had he but added a
skill
drawing
men
voice,
it
were Agatharchis com-
plete.
XXXV
ON A RELIEF OF EROS AND ANTEROS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Nemesis fashioned a winged Love contrary to
winged Love, warding off bow with bow, that he
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may be done by
before,
he sheds
TJ
;
and, bold and fearless
having tasted of the bitter
as he did
tears,
and spits thrice into his
most wonderful one will burn
has set Love aflame.
arrows,
!
low-girt
fire
bosom.
with
fire
:
Ah,
Love
XXXVI
ON A LOVE BREAKING THE THUNDERBOLT
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
how winged Love breaks the winged thundershowing that he is a fire more mastering than
Lo,
bolt,
fire.
XXXVII
ON A LOVE PLOUGHING
MOSCHUS
Laying down his torch and bow, malicious Love
took the rod of an ox-driver, and wore a wallet
over his shoulder ; and coupling patient-necked bulls
his yoke, sowed the wheat-bearing furrow of
Demeter and spoke, looking up, to Zeus himself,
Fill thou the corn-lands, lest I put thee, bull of
Europa, under my plough.'
under
;
'
XXXVIII
ON A PAN PIPING
ARABIUS
have clearly heard Pan piping,
so did the sculptor mingle breath with the form ; but
in despair at the sight of flying, unstaying Echo, he
renounced the pipe's unavailing sound.
One might
surely
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XXXIX
ON A STATUE OF THE ARMED VENUS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Pallas said, seeing Cytherea armed,
'
O
Cyprian,
thou that we go so to judgment?' and she,
laughing softly, Why should I lift a shield in contest ? if I conquer when naked, how will it be when
wilt
'
I
take arms
?
XL
ON THE CNIDIAN VENUS OF PRAXITELES
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The Cyprian
Cnidus,
'
Alas
!
said when she saw the Cyprian of
where did Praxiteles see me naked ?
XLI
ON A SLEEPING ARIADNE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Strangers, touch not the marble Ariadne, lest she
even
start
up on the quest of Theseus.
XLII
ON A NIOBE BY PRAXITELES
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
From
life
the gods
made me
stone again Praxiteles wrought
a stone
me
into
;
life.
and from
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XLIII
ON A PICTURE OF A FAUN
AGATHIAS
Untouched,
O
young
Satyr, does thy reed utter a
sound, or why leaning sideways dost thou put thine
ear to the pipe ?
He laughs in silence yet haply
had he spoken a word, but was held in forgetfulness
by delight ; for the wax did not hinder, but of his
own will he welcomed silence, with his whole mind
turned intent on the pipe.
;
XLIV
ON THE HEIFER OF MYRON
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Ah
thou wert not quick enough, Myron, in thy
but the bronze set before thou hadst cast in
;
casting
the soul.
XLV
ON A SLEEPING SATYR
PLATO
This Satyr Diodorus engraved not, but laid to
rest ; your touch will wake him ; the silver is asleep.
XLVI
ON THE TEMPLE OF THE EPHESIAN
ARTEMIS
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
My eyes have looked on the cliff-like wall of
Babylon that chariots can run upon, and on the
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Zeus by the Alpheus, and the high-hung gardens,
and the
giant statue of the Sun, and the vast toil of
the towering pyramids and the huge monument of
Mausolus; but when I saw the House of Artemis
soaring into the clouds, it dimmed those others, and
lo
except in heaven have the Sun's eyes never
!
looked on
its like.
XLVII
THE LIMIT OF ART
PARRHASIUS
even though they who hear believe not
for I affirm that the clear limits of this art have been
found under my hand, and the mark is fixed fast that
cannot be exceeded, though nothing mortal is fault-
This
less.
I say
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RELIGION
WORSHIP
IN SPRING
(l)
THEAETETUS SCHOLASTICUS
Now
at
her
fruitful
birth-tide
flowers out in blowing roses
;
the
fair
green
field
now on the boughs of
cicala, mad with music,
the colonnaded cypresses the
lulls the binder of sheaves ; and the careful motherswallow, having fashioned houses under the eaves,
gives lodging to her brood in the mud-plastered
cells
and the sea slumbers, with zephyr-wooing
calm spread clear over the broad ship-tracks, not
breaking in squalls on the stern-posts, not vomiting
foam upon the beaches. O sailor, burn by the altars
the glittering round of a mullet or a cuttle-fish, or a
vocal scarus, to Priapus, ruler of ocean and giver of
anchorage ; and so go fearlessly on thy seafaring to
the bounds of the Ionian sea.
:
II
WORSHIP IN SPRING
(2)
AGATHIAS
Ocean lies purple in calm ; for no gale whitens
the fretted waves with its ruffling breath, and no
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[sect.
5
is the
sea shattered round the rocks and
sucked back again down towards the deep. West
winds breathe, and the swallow twitters over the
longer
straw-glued
O
chamber
that she has built.
Be
of good
whether thou sail to
thQ Syrtis or the Sicilian shingle only by the altars
of Priapus of the Anchorage burn a scarus or ruddy
cheer,
skilled in seafaring,
:
wrasse.
Ill
ZEUS OF THE FAIR WIND
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Let one call from the stern on Zeus of the Fair
for guide on his road, shaking out sail against
the forestays
whether he runs to the Dark Eddies,
where Poseidon rolls his curling w^ave along the
sands, or whether he searches the homeward passage
down the Aegean sea-plain, let him lay honey-cakes
by this image, and so go his way ; here Philon, son
of Antipater, set up the ever-gracious god for pledge
Wind
;
of
fair
and fortunate voyaging.
IV
THE HOLY CITY
MACEDONIUS
Beneath
flowering
Maeonian Hermus, am
Tmolus,
I,
by
the
stream
of
Sardis, capital city of the
I was the first who bore witness for Zeus
would not betray the hidden child of our Rhea.
I too was nurse of Bromius, and saw him amid the
thunder-flash shining with broader radiance; and
Lydians.
for I
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on our slopes the golden-haired god pressed the
harvest of wine out of the breasts of the grape.
All
grace has been given me, and many a time has many
an age found me envied by the happiest cities.
first
HERMES OF THE WAYS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Go and
your limbs here for a little under the
juniper, O wayfarers, by Hermes, Guardian of the
Way, not in crowds, but those of you whose knees
are tired with heavy toil and thirst, after traversing
a long road for there a breeze and a shady seat and
the fountain imder the rock will lull your toil-wearied
limbs and having so escaped the midday breath of
the autumnal dogstar, pay his due honour to Hermes
of the Ways.
rest
;
;
VI
SACRED NURSERIES OF YOUTH
NICIAS
I,
who
inherit the tossing mountain-forests of steep
Cyllene, stand
here guarding the pleasant playing
whom boys often offer marjoram
fresh garlands of violets.
Hermes, to
and hyacinths and
fields,
VII
PAN OF THE SEA-CLIFF
ARCHIAS
Me, Pan, the' fishermen placed upon this holy
Pan of the seashore, the watcher here over the
cliff.
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anchorages of the harbour ; and I take care now
of the baskets and again of the trawlers off this shore.
Sail by,
stranger, and in requital of this good
service of theirs I will send behind thee a gentle
south wind.
fair
O
VIII
THE
SPIRIT OF
THE SEA
ARCHIAS
Small to see am I Priapus who inhabit this spit
of shore opposite the Bithynian island, sharp-headed,
such an one as upon lonely beaches might
be carved by the sons of toiling fishermen. But if
any basket-fisher or angler call me to succour, I rush
fleeter than the blast
I espy even the creatures that
run under water for truly the form of godhead is
known from deeds, not from shape.
footless,
:
:
IX
THE GUARDIAN OF THE CHASE
SATYRUS
Whether thou goest on the
hill with lime smeared
over thy fowler's reed, or whether thou killest hares,
call on Pan ; Pan shows the dog the prints of the
furry foot, Pan raises the stiff-jointed lime-twigs.
X
THE HUNTER GOD
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Fair
fowler
fall
thy chase,
O
hunter of hares, and thou
the winged people
who comest pursuing
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beneath this double hill ; and cry thou to me, Pan,
the guardian of the wood from my cliff; I join the
chase with both dogs and reeds.
XI
FORTUNA PARVULORUM
PERSES
Even me the little god
upon in due season thou
if thou call
but ask not for
of small things
shalt find
;
since whatsoever a god of the commons
;
can give to a labouring man, of this I, Tycho, have
great things
control.
XII
THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS
ADDAEUS
by the hero (and he is called Philolies by the cross-roads in front of
Potidaea, tell him to what work thou leadest thy
straightway will he, being by thee, make thy
feet
If thou pass
pregmon) who
;
business easy.
XIII
SAVED BY FAITH
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
They
straight
call
and
me
the
fearless
one, and say I cannot go
on a prosperous voyage like
sea and I deny it not
I am
little
ships that sail out to
;
a little boat, but to the sea
;
all is
equal
;
fortune, not
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makes the
size,
and some
5
Let another have the
their confidence
but may my salvation be of
difference.
advantage in rudders
in this
[sect.
;
for
in that,
some put
God.
XIV
THE SERVICE OF GOD
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Me
Chelidon, priestess of Zeus, an aged woman
to make libation on the altars of the
immortals, happy in my children, free from grief, the
tomb holds ; for with no shadow in their eyes the
well-skilled
gods saw
my
piety.
XV
BEATI
MUNDO CORDE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
He who
holy
;
enters the incense-filled temple
and holiness
is
to
must be
have a pure mind.
XVI
THE WATER OF PURITY
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
With hallowed hands, with true mind and tongue,
enter in, pure not by baths but in spirit; for the
holy a sprinkling of water suffices ; but a wicked man
the whole ocean cannot wash in
its
floods.
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THE GREAT MYSTERIES
CRINAGORAS
thy Hfe be fixed in one seat, and thou
sailest not the sea nor treadest the roads on dry land,
yet by all means go to Attica that thou mayest see
those great nights of the worship of Demeter;
whereby thou shalt possess thy soul without care
Though
among the living, and lighter
the place that awaiteth all.
when thou must go
to
VI
NATURE
THE GARDEN GOD
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Call me not him who comes from Libanus, O
stranger, who dehghts in the talk of young men lovemaking by night
am
small and a rustic, born of
all
my business is the
delver's labour ; whence four garlands at the hands
of the four Seasons crown me from the beloved
fruitful garden.
a
;
I
neighbour-nymph, and
II
pan's piping
ALCAEUS OF MESSENE
Breathe music, O Pan that goest on the mountains,
with thy sweet lips, breathe delight into thy pastoral
reed, pouring song from the musical pipe, and make
the melody sound in tune with the choral words
and about thee to the pulse of the rhythm let the
inspired feet of these water-nymphs keep falling free.
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III
THE HIDDEN SPRING
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Drink not here, traveller, from this warm pool in
the brook, full of mud stirred by the sheep at pasture ; but going a very little way over the ridge where
the heifers are grazing, there by yonder pastoral
stone-pine thou wilt find bubbling through the fountained rock a spring colder than northern snow.
IV
THE MEADOW AT NOON
Here
O
fling
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
down on the
thyself
and
grassy
meadow,
limbs from painful
weariness ; since here also, as thou listenest to the
cicalas' tune, the stone-pine trembling in the wafts
of west wind will lull thee, and the shepherd on the
mountains piping at noon nigh the spring under a
copse of leafy plane so escaping the ardours of the
autumnal dogstar thou wilt cross the height tomorrow ; trust this good counsel that Pan gives thee.
traveller,
rest thy relaxed
:
V
BENEATH THE PINE
PLATO
down by
pine that
her branches beneath the western breezes,
and beside my chattering waters Pan's pipe shall
bring drowsiness down on thy enchanted eyelids.
Sit
rustles
this high-foliaged voiceful
90
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[sect. 6
VI
WOOD-MUSIC
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
and
sit
under my stone-pine
Come
that
murmurs
bends to the soft western breeze ;
and lo this honey-dropping fountain, where I bring
sweet sleep playing on my lonely reeds.
so honey-sweet as
it
VII
THE PLANE-TREE ON HYMETTUS
HERMOCREON
down, stranger, as thou passest by, under this
shady plane, whose leaves flutter in the soft breath
of the west wind, where Nicagoras consecrated me,
the renowned Hermes son of Maia, protector of his
orchard-close and cattle.
Sit
VIII
THE GARDEN OF PAN
PLATO
Let the shaggy cliff of the Dryads be silent, and
the springs welling from the rock, and the manymingled bleating of the ewes ; for Pan himself makes
music on his melodious pipe, running his supple lip
over the joined reeds ; and around him stand up to
dance with glad feet the water-nymphs and thQ
nymphs of the oakwood.
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IX
THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE
MARIANUS
Here beneath the plane-trees, overborne by soft
Love slumbered, giving his torch to the
Nymphs' keeping and the Nymphs said one to
Why do we delay ? and would that with
another,
this we might have quenched the fire in the heart
sleep,
;
'
But now, the torch having kindled even
the amorous Nymphs pour hot water
thence into the bathing pool.
of mortals.'
the waters,
X
ON THE LAWN
COMETAS
Dear Pan, abide
lips, for
thou
here, drawing the pipe over thy
wilt find
Echo on
these sunny greens.
XI
THE SINGING STONE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Remember me
the singing stone, thou who passest
when Alcathous was building his
bastions, then Phoebus lifted on his shoulder a stone
for the house, and laid down on me his Delphic
by Nisaea
;
for
harp ; thenceforth I am lyre-voiced strike me lightly
with a little pebble, and carry away witness of my
:
boast,
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[sect. 6
XII
THE WOODLAND WELL
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
the ever-flowing Clear Fount gush forth for bypassing wayfarers from the neighbouring dell ; and
on every side I am bordered well with planes and
I
soft-bloomed laurels, and make coolness and shade
in.
Therefore pass me not by in summer
rest by me in quiet, ridding thee of thirst and wearito lie
ness.
XIII
ASLEEP IN THE WOOD
THEOCRITUS
Thou
on the leaf-strewn floor, Daphnis,
body and the hunting-stakes are
freshly set on the hills
and Pan pursues thee, and
Priapus who binds the yellow-flowering ivy on his
sleepest
resting thy weary
;
;
lovely head, passing side by side into the cave ; but
flee thou, flee, shaking off the dropping drowsiness
of slumber.
XIV
THE ORCHARD-CORNER
ANYTE
I,
Hermes, stand here by the windy orchard
in
the cross-ways nigh the grey sea-shore, giving rest
on the way to wearied men ; and the fountain wells
forth cold stainless water.
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XV
PASTORAL SOLITUDE
SATYRUS
Tongueless Echo along this pastoral slope makes
answering music to the birds with repeating voice.
XVI
TO A BLACKBIRD SINGING
MARCUS ARGENTARIUS
No
longer now warble on the oak, no longer sing,
O blackbird, sitting on the topmost spray ] this tree
is thine enemy ; hasten where the vine rises in clustering shade of silvered leaves ; on her bough rest
the sole of thy foot, around her sing and pour the
shrill music of thy mouth ; for the oak carries mistletoe baleful to birds, but she the grape-cluster; and
the Wine-god cherishes singers.
XVII
UNDER THE OAK
ANTIPHILUS
Lofty-hung boughs of the
men
tall
oak, a
shadowy height
from the fierce heat, fairfoliaged, closer-roofing than tiles, houses of woodpigeons, houses of crickets, O noontide branches,
protect me likewise who lie beneath your tresses,
fleeing from the sun's rays.
over
that take shelter
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[sect. 6
XVIII
THE RELEASE OF THE OX
ADDAEUS
The
labouring ox, outworn with old age and labour
of the furrow, Alcon did not lead to the butchering
knife, reverencing it for its works
and loose in the
deep meadow grass it rejoices with lowings over
freedom from the plough.
;
XIX
THE SWALLOW AND THE GRASSHOPPER
EUENUS
honey-fed, chatterer, snatchest thou
and bearest the chattering cricket for feast to thy
unfledged young, thou chatterer the chatterer, thou
winged the winged, thou summer guest the summer
guest, and wilt not quickly cast it loose ? for it is not
right nor just that singers should perish by singers'
Attic maid,
mouths.
XX
THE COMPLAINT OF THE CICALA
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Why
shepherds, do you tear
solitude-haunting cricket from the dewy
sprays, me the roadside nightingale of the Nymphs,
who at midday talk shrilly in the hills and the shady
dells ?
Lo, here is the thrush and the blackbird, lo
here such flocks of starlings, plunderers of the cornfield's riches ; it is allowed to seize the ravagers of
your fruits destroy them why grudge me my leaves
in merciless chase,
me
the
and
fresh
:
dew ?
:
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XXI
THE LAMENT OF THE SWALLOW
PAMPHILUS
AVhy all day long, hapless maiden daughter of
Pandion, soundest thou wailingly through thy twittering mouth ? has longing come on thee for thy maidenhead, that Tereus of Thrace ravished from thee by
dreadful violence
?
XXII
THE SHEPHERD OF THE NYMPHS
MVRINUS
Thyrsis the reveller, the shepherd of the Nymphs'
sheep, Thyrsis who pipes on the reed like Pan,
having drunk at noon, sleeps under the shady pine,
and Love himself has taken his crook and watches
the flocks.
XXIII
THE SHRINE BY THE SEA
(l)
MNASALCAS
Let us stand by the low shore of the sprayscattering deep, looking on the precinct of Cypris
of the Sea, and the fountain overshadowed with
poplars, from which the shrill kingfishers draw water
with their
bills.
XXIV
THE SHRINE BY THE SEA
(2)
ANYTE
This is the Cyprian's ground, since it was her
pleasure ever to look from land on the shining sea,
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96
she
that
sailors
;
may
give
fulfilment
of
their
[sect. 6
voyage
to
and around the deep trembles, gazing on
her bright image.
XXV
THE LIGHTHOUSE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
No
longer
dreading the rayless
me
O
towards
ers
I
light
confidently,
my
seafarers
night-mist,
;
sail
wander-
for all
memorial of the
far-shining torch,
labours of the Asclepiadae.
XXVI
SPRING ON THE COAST (l)
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Now is the season of sailing for already the
chattering swallow is come and the pleasant West
wind ; the meadows flower, and the sea, tossed up
;
with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence.
Weigh thine anchors and unloose thine hawsers, O
mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set
this I
Priapus of the harbour bid thee, O man, that thou
mayest sail forth to all thy trafficking.
:
XXVII
SPRING ON THE COAST
{2)
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
Now is the season for a ship to run through the
gurgling water, and no longer does the sea gloom,
fretted with gusty squalls, and now the swallow
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plasters her
soft leafage
97
round houses under the rafters, and the
laughs in the meadows.
Therefore wind
up your soaked cables, O sailors, and weigh your
sunken anchors from the harbours, and stretch the
forestays to carry your well-woven
sails.
This I the
son of Bromius bid you, Priapus of the anchorage.
XXVIII
GREEN SUMMER
NICAENETUS
to feast down in the city, Philobut in the country, delighting myself with
the breath of the West wind ; sufficient couch for
me is a strewing of boughs under my side, for at
hand is a bed of native willow and osier, the ancient
garland of the Carians ; then let wine be brought,
and the delightful lyre of the Muses, that drinking
at our will we may sing the renowned bride of Zeus,
lady of our island.
I
do not wish
therus,
XXIX
PALACE GARDENS
ARABIUS
am
with waters and gardens and groves
and vineyards, and the joyousness of the bordering
sea ; and fisherman and farmer from different sides
stretch forth to me the pleasant gifts of sea and
land
and them who abide in me either a bird
singing or the sweet cry of the ferrymen lulls to rest.
I
:
filled
-fiUff:'-
VII
THE FAMILY
THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS
MACEDONIUS
Piety has raised
this house from the first foundation
even to the lofty roof; for Macedonius fashioned
not his wealth by heaping up from the possessions
of others with plundering sword, nor has any poor
man here wept over his vain and profitless toil, being
robbed of his most just hire ; and as rest from labour
is kept inviolate by the just man, so let the works of
pious mortals endure.
n
THE
girl's
cup
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
Aniceteia wets her golden lip in
her also the draught of bridal.
me
;
may
I
give
Ill
THE FLOWER UNBLOWN
PHILODEMUS
Not yet is thy summer unfolded from the bud,
nor does the purple come upon thy grape-cluster
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first shoots of its maiden graces
but already the yo.ung Loves are whetting their fleet
arrows, Lysidice, and the hidden fire is smouldering.
Flee we, wretched lovers, ere yet the shaft is on the
string
I prophesy a mighty conflagration soon.
that puts out the
;
;
IV
'
A ROSE IN WINTER
CRINAGORAS
Roses ere now bloomed in spring, but now in
midwinter we have opened our crimson cups, smiling
in delight on this thy birthday morning, that brings
thee full nigh the bridal bed
better for us to be
wreathed on the brows of so fair a wife than wait for
:
the spring sun.
V
GOODBYE TO CHILDHOOD
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Her tambourines and pretty ball, and the net that
confined her hair, and her dolls and dolls' dresses,
Timareta dedicates before her marriage to Artemis
of Limnae, a maiden to a maiden, as is fit ; do thou,
daughter of Leto, laying thine hand over the girl
Timareta, preserve her purely in her purity.
VI
THE SCHOOLBOY
EUPHORION
When Eudoxus
he gave
its
shore his
childish glory to
first
lovely fleece of hair
instead of the
;
Phoebus
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loo
O
tress,
Far-Darter,
may
[sect. 7
the lovely ivy from Acharnae
in growth.
be upon him as he waxes
VII
THE
wife's prayer
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Cythera of Bithynia dedicates me, the marble
image of thy form, O Cyprian, with prayer do thou
:
impart in return thy great grace for this little one, as
and concord with her husband satisfies
is thy wont
;
her.
VIII
BRIDEGROOM AND BRIDE
JOANNES BARBUCALLUS
To
Persuasion and the Paphian, Hermophilas the
neatherd, bridegroom of flower-chapleted Eurynome,
dedicates a cream-cheese and combs from his hives
accept for her the cheese, for me the honey.
IX
THE
bride's vigil
AGATHIAS
O lamp, nor call up the rain,
bridegroom in his coming ; alway
thou art jealous of the Cyprian yes, and when she
betrothed Hero to Leander O my heart, leave the
Never grow mould,
lest
thou stop
my
—
;
Thou art the Fire-God's, and I believe
rest alone.
that by vexing the Cyprian thou flatterest thy master's
pangs.
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HEAVEN ON EARTH
THEOCRITUS
common Cyprian revere the
goddess, and name her the Heavenly One, the
dedication of holy Chrysogone in the house of
Amphicles, with whom she had children and life
together ; and ever it was better with them year by
year, who began with thy worship, O mistress
for
mortals who serve the gods are the better off themThis
is
not
the
;
;
selves.
XI
WEARY PARTING
MELEAGER
Well-freighted seafaring ships that sail the Strait
of Helle, taking the fair North wind in your sails,
if haply on the island shores of Cos you see Phanion
gazing on the sparkling sea, carry this message, fair
ships, that desire brings me, not a sailor but a wayfarer on my feet.
For if you say this, carrying good
news, straightway will Zeus of the Favouring Wind
likewise breathe into your canvas.
XII
MOTHERHOOD
CALLIMACHUS
Again,
Lady
O
Ilithyia,
come thou
of Birth, even thus with
at
happy
Lycaenis'
call.
issue of travail
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[sect. 7
offering now this is for a girl, but afterwards
thy fragrant temple hold another for a boy.
whose
may
XIII
PAST PERIL
CALLIMACHUS
Thou
knowest, Asclepius, that thou hast received
payment of the debt that Aceson owed, having vowed
it for his wife Demodice
yet if it be forgotten, and
;
thou demand thy wages,
this tablet says
it
will give
testimony.
XIV
FATHER AND .MOTHER
PHAEDIMUS
Artemis, to thee the son of Cichesias dedicates
his shoes, and Themistodice the strait folds of her
gown, because thou didst graciously hold thy two
hands over her in childbed, coming, O our Lady,
And do thou, O Artemis, grant
without thy bow.
yet to Leon to see his infant child a sturdy-limbed
boy.
XV
HOUSEHOLD HAPPINESS
AGATHIAS
Callirhoe dedicates to the Paphian garlands, to
Pallas a tress of hair, to Artemis her girdle ; for she
found a wooer to her heart and was given a stainless
prime and bore male children.
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XVI
GRACIOUS CHILDREN
THEAETETUS
Fair fall you, children
whose family^'are you ?
and what gracious name is given to so pretty things
as you ?
I am Nicanor, and my father is Aepioretus,
and my mother Hegeso, and I am a Macedonian
born.
And I am Phila, and this is my brother and
;
—
—
;
we both stand
here
fulfilling
a
vow
of our parents.
XVII
THE UNBROKEN HOME
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Androtion
built
me, a burying-place for himself
and his children and wife, but as yet I am the tomb
of no one
so likewise may I remain for a long
time and if it must be, let me take to myself the
;
;
eldest
first.
XVIII
THE BROKEN HOME
BIANOR
wept the doom of my Theionoe, but borne up
by hopes of her child I wailed in lighter grief; and
I
now
a jealous fate has bereft me of the child also
babe, I am cozened of even thee, all that was
left me.
Persephone, hearken thus much at a father's
lamentation
lay the babe on the bosom of its dead
mother.
alas,
;
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[sect. 7
XIX
SUNDERING
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
when thou hadst set thy footAretemias, from the boat upon Cocytus' shore,
carrying in thy young hand thy baby just dead, the
Surely, methinks,
print,
fair
Dorian
women had compassion
in
Hades, incheeks
quiring of thy fate
and thou, fretting thy
with tears, didst utter that woeful word
having travailed of two children, I left one
husband Euphron, and the other I bring
dead.'
;
'
:
O
friends,
for
my
to the
XX
NUNC DIMITTIS
JOANNES BARBUCALLUS
my husband as my last thread was
praised the gods of death, and I praised the
gods of marriage, those that I left my husband alive,
and these that he was even such an one ; may he
remain, a father for the children who are his and
Gazing upon
spun,
I
XXI
LEFT ALONE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Marathonis laid Nicopolis in this stone, wetting
the marble coffin with tears, but all to no avail for
what is there more than sorrow for the husband alone
;
upon
earth
when
his wife is
gone
?
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XXII
earth's felicity
CARPHYLLIDES
Find no
fault as
thou passest by
my monument,
wayfarer not even in death have I aught worthy
I
I have left children's children
of lamentation.
had joy of one wife, who grew old along with me
1 made marriage for three sons whose sons I often
lulled asleep on my breast, and never moaned over
who, shedding
the sickness or the death of any
tears without sorrow over me, sent me to slumber the
sweet sleep in the country of the holy.
;
;
:
VIII
BEAUTY
SUMMER NOON
MELEAGER
I SAW Alexis at noon walking on the way, when
summer was just cutting the tresses of the cornfields
and double rays burned me these of Love
;
;
from the boy's eyes, and those from the sun. But
those night allayed again, while these in dreams the
phantom of a form kindled yet higher ; and Sleep,
the releaser of toil for others, brought toil upon
me, fashioning the image of beauty in my soul,
a breathing
fire.
II
IN
THE FIELD-PATH
RHIANUS
O
Cleonicus, the lovely Graces met thee
going along the narrow field-path, and clasped thee
close with their rose-like hands,
boy, and thou
wert made all grace.
Hail to thee from afar ; but it
Surely,
O
IOC
BEAUTY
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107
O
my dear, for the dry asphodel stalk to
not safe,
pass too near the fire.
is
Ill
THE NEW LOVE
MELEAGER
The Cyprian denies that she bore Love, seeing
Antiochus among the youths, another Desire then
O you who are young, cherish the new Longing for
assuredly this boy is found a Love stronger than
Love.
;
;
IV
CONTRA MUNDUM
CALLIMACHUS
and say again, Diocles nor does Acheloiis
touch the cups consecrated to him fair is the boy, O
Acheloiis, exceeding fair and if any one says no, let
me be alone in my judgment of beauty.
Pour
in
'
;
'
;
;
V
THE
KISS
PLATO
it
Kissing Agathon, I stayed my soul at my
poor wretch, as fain to cross over.
lips,
while
rose,
VI
THE FLOWER OF COS
MELEAGER
sculptor made a Parian image of
Love, moulding the Cyprian's son ; but now Love,
Praxiteles the
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io8
[sect. 8
the most beautiful of the gods, imaging himself, has
fashioned a breathing statue, Praxiteles, that the one
among mortals and the other in heaven may have all
love-charms in control, and at once on earth and
among the immortals they may bear the sceptres of
Desire.
Most happy the sacred city of the Meropes,
which nurtured as prince of her youth the god-born
new Love.
VII
THE STAR-GAZER
PLATO
the stars thou gazest, my Star would
heaven to look at thee with many eyes.
On
;
I
were
VIII
THE SUN OF TYRE
MELEAGER
so help
me
Love, are the fosterlings of
but Myiscus blazes out and quenches them all
as the sun the stars.
Delicate,
Tyre
;
IX
THE LODESTAR
MELEAGER
On
my life are fastened;
the very breath of my soul, what is left of
it
for by thine eyes, O boy, that speak even to the
deaf, and by thy shining brow, if thou ever dost cast
thee, Myiscus, the cables of
in thee
;
is
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7-12]
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a clouded glance on me, I gaze on winter, and if thou
lookest joyously, sweet spring bursts into bloom.
X
LAUREL AND HYACINTH
MELEAGER
O
pastoral pipes,
no longer sing of Daphnis on the
mountains, to pleasure Pan the lord of the goats
do thou, O lyre interpretress of Phoebus,
any more chant Hyacinthus chapleted with maiden
laurel
for time was when Daphnis was delightful to
the mountain-nymphs, and Hyacinthus to thee but
now let Dion hold the sceptre of the Desires.
;
neither
;
;
XI
THE QUEST OF PAN
GLAUCUS
Nymphs, tell me true when I inquire if Daphnis
Yes, yes,
passing by rested his white kids here.
piping Pan, and carved in the bark of yonder poplar
a letter to say to thee, Pan, Pan, come to Malea, to
Farewell,
the Psophidian mount; I will be there.'
—
'
—
Nymphs,
I go.
XII
THE AUTUMN BOWER
MNASALCAS
'
Vine, that hastenest so to drop thy leaves to earth,
fearest thou then the evening setting of the Pleiad ?
no
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[sect. 8
abide for sweet sleep to fall on Antileon beneath thee,
giving all grace to beauty until then.
XIII
AN ASH
THE FIRE
IN
MELEAGER
Now grey dawn
is
sweet
way Damis swoons out
all
;
but sleepless in the doorthat
is
of his breath,
left
unhappy, having but seen Heraclitus for he stood
under the beams of his eyes as wax cast among the
embers ; yet arise, I pray thee, luckless Damis ; even
myself I wear Love's wound and shed tears over
;
thy tears.
XIV
FAREWELL
MELEAGER
No
longer will I, goat-foot Pan, live among the
what is there
flocks, no longer inhabit the hill-tops
Daphnis
sweet, what desirable on the mountains ?
is dead, Daphnis who kindled the fire in my heart.
I will dwell here in the city; let some other one
array him for the chase: what was dear to Pan is
dear to him no more.
:
I
;
IX
FATE AND CHANGE
I
THE FLOWER OF YOUTH
MARCUS ARGENTARIUS
Sweet-breathed
Isias, though thy sleep be tenfold
awake and take this garland in thy dear hands,
which, blooming now, thou wilt see withering at day-
spice,
break, the likeness of a maiden's prime.
II
THE MAIDEN'S POSY
RUFINUS
send thee, Rhodocleia, this garland, which myself have twined of fair flowers beneath my hands
here is lily and rose-chalice and moist anemone, and
garlanding
soft narcissus and dark-glowing violet
thyself with these, cease to be high-minded ; even as
the garland thou also dost flower and fall.
I
;
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[sect. 9
III
WITHERED BLOSSOMS
STRATO
thou boast in thy beauty, know that the rose
too blooms, but quickly being withered, is cast on
the dunghill ; for blossom and beauty have the same
time allotted to them, and both together envious
time withers away.
If
IV
ROSE AND THORN
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The
past,
rose
thou
is
at her
wilt find,
prime a
little
when thou
while ; which once
no rose, but
seekest,
a thorn.
V
THE BIRD OF TIME
THVMOCLES
Thou rememberest
I
haply, thou rememberest
said to thee that holy word,
'
The hour
is
the
when
fairest,
the hour the lightest-footed of things ; the hour
not be overtaken by the swiftest bird in air.'
all thy blossoms are shed on the ground.
lo
may
Now
!
VI
THE END OF DESIRE
SECUNDUS
I
who once was
no longer
Lais,
am
Lais,
an arrow
plainly to
all
in all
men's hearts,
the Nemesis of years.
;
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3-9]
113
Ay, by the Cyprian (and what is the Cyprian now to
me but an oath to swear by ?) not Lais herself knows
Lais now.
VII
HOARDED BEAUTY
STRATO
If beauty
and
if
grows
abides,
it
dost keep
old,
why
share
it be gone
away what thou
before
it
fear to give
?
VIII
DUST AND ASHES
ASCLEPIADES
Thou
hoardest
profit? for
thy
when thou
maidenhood; and to what
gone to Hades thou wilt
art
Among the living are the
not find a lover, O girl.
Cyprian's pleasures but in Acheron, O maiden, we
shall he bones and dust.
;
IX
TO-MORROW
MACEDONIUS
—
To-morrow I will look on thee
but that never
comes for us, while the accustomed putting-off ever
grows and grows. This is all thy kindness to my
'
'
longing ; but to others thou bearest other gifts,
despising my faithful service.
I will see thee at
evening.'
And what is the evening of a woman's
life ? old age full of a million wrinkles.
'
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.114-
[sect. 9
X
THE CASKET OF PANDORA
MACEDONIUS
look on the jar of Pandora, nor do
I blame the woman, but the wings of the Blessings
themselves ; for they flutter through the sky over the
abodes of all the earth, while they ought to have
descended on the ground. But the woman behind
the lid, with cheeks grown pallid, has lost the splendour of the beauties that she had, and now our life
has missed both ways, because she grows old in it,
and the jar is empty.
I
laugh as
I
XI
COMING WINTER
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
Now is autumn, Epicles, and out of the belt of
Bootes the clear splendour of Arcturus has arisen
now the grape-clusters take thought of the sickle, and
men thatch their cottages against winter but thou
hast neither warm fleecy cloak nor garment indoors,
and thou wilt be shrivelled up with cold and curse
;
;
the
star.
XII
NEMESIS
MELEAGER
Thou
by the Cyprian, what not even a god
Theron did not appear
nay,
to thee Theron did not appear fair
fair to thee
thou wouldst have it so and thou wilt not quake
might,
saidst,
O greatly-daring spirit
;
;
;
:
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even before the flaming thunderbolt of Zeus. Wherefore lo
indignant Nemesis hath set thee forth to see,
who wert once so voluble, for an example of rashness
!
of tongue.
XIII
THE BLOODY WELL
APOLLONIDES
the Clear Fount (for the Nymphs gave this surname to me beyond all other springs), since a robber
slew men who were resting beside me and washed
his bloodstained hand in my holy waters, have turned
that sweet flow backward, and no longer gush out for
wayfarers ; for who any more will call me the Clear ?
I
XIV
A STORY OF THE SEA
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Once on
two men
when a
a time
fell
ship was shattered at sea,
one plank. Anta-
at strife fighting for
goras struck av/ay Pisistratus ; one could not blame
him, for it was for his life but Justice took cognisThe other swam ashore ; but him a dog-fish
ance.
seized
surely the Avenger of the Fates rests not
even in the watery deep.
;
•
XV
EMPTY HANDS
CALLIMACHUS
I
know
that
by the Graces,
my hands
O
are
Menippus,
empty of wealth
tell
me
not
;
but
my own
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dream
word
of
hurts
it
;
:
yes,
my
me
[sect. 9
hear evermore this bitter
the most unloving thing
to
dear, this
is
have borne from thee.
all I
XVI
LIGHT LOVE
MARCUS ARGENTARIUS
wert loved when rich, Sosicrates, but being
poor thou art loved no longer; what magic has
hunger and she who before called thee spice and
darling Adonis, Menophila, now inquires thy name.
Who and whence of men art thou ? where is thy
Surely thou art dull in learning this saying,
city?
that none is friend to him who has nothing.
Thou
!
XVII
fortune's PLAYTHING
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
''
Not of good-will has fortune advanced thee but
she may show her omnipotence even down
;
that
to thee.
XVIII
time the conqueror
PLATO
Time
carries all things
to change
;
length of days knows how
nature and fortune.
name and shape and
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XIX
MEMNON AND ACHILLES
ASCLEPIODOTUS
Know,
O
Thetis of the sea, that
Memnon
yet lives,
and cries aloud, warmed by his mother's torch, in
Egypt beneath Libyan hill-brows, where the running
Nile severs fair-portalled Thebes; but Achilles, the
insatiate of battle, utters no voice either on the
Trojan plain or in Thessaly.
XX
CORINTH
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
Where
thine admired beauty, Dorian Corinth,
where thy crown of towers ? where thy treasures of
old, where the temples of the immortals, where the
halls and where the wives of the Sisyphids, and the
tens of thousands of thy people that were ? for not
even a trace, O most distressful one, is left of thee,
and war has swept up together and clean devoured
all ; only we, the unravaged sea-nymphs, maidens of
Ocean, abide, halcyons wailing for thy woes.
is
XXI
DELOS
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Would
I
gales, rather
bed
were yet blown about by ever-shifting
than fixed for wandering Leto's child-
I had not so
miserable me, how
;
bemoaned my
many Greek
desolation.
ships sail
Ah
by me.
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desert Delos, once so worshipful
is
Hera's vengeance laid on
[sect. 9
late, but terrible,
thus for Leto's sake.
me
:
XXII
TROY
AGATHIAS
O stranger, deride me
only has Fortune accomplished
this
and if of Asia, mourn not, for every city has
bowed to the Dardanian sceptre of the Aeneadae.
And though the jealous sword of enemies has emptied
out Gods' precincts and walls and inhabitants, I am
queen again
but do thou, O my child, fearless
Rome, lay the yoke of thy law over Greece.
If thou art a Spartan born,
me
not, for not to
;
;
XXIII
MYCENAE
(l)
ALPHEUS
Few
of the native places of the heroes are in our
yet left rise little above the plain
and such art thou,
hapless Mycenae, as I marked
thee in passing by, more desolate than any hill
pasture, a thing that goatherds point at
and an
old man said, Here stood the Cyclopean city rich
eyes,
and those
O
;
'
in gold.'
XXIV
MYCENAE
(2)
POMPEIUS
Though
I
am
but drifted desolate dust where once
I am more obscure to see than
was Mycenae, though
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119
any chance rock, he who looks on the famed city of
Ilus, whose wall I trod down and emptied all the
house of Priam, will know thence how great my
former strength was and if old age has done me
;
outrage, I
am
content with Homer's testimony.
XXV
AMPHIPOLIS
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
City built upon Strymon and the broad Hellespont,
grave of Edonian Phyllis, Amphipolis, yet there
remain left to thee the traces of the temple of her of
Aethopion and Brauron, and the water of the river so
often fought around ; but thee, once the high strife of
the sons of Aegeus, we see like a torn rag of sea-
purple on either shore.
XXVI
SPARTA
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
O Lacedaemon, once unsubdued and untrodden,
thou seest shadeless the smoke of Olenian camp-fires
on the Eurotas, and the birds building their nests on
the ground wail for thee, and the wolves do not hear
any sheep.
XXVII
BERYTUS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Formerly the dead left their
hold the city's funeral.
living
city
living; but
we
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XXVIII
SED TERRAE GRAVIORA
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Me, a hull that had measured such spaces of sea,
consumed on the land that cut her pines to make
me.
Ocean brought me safe to shore but I found
her who bore me more treacherous than the sea.
fire
;
XXIX
YOUTH AND RICHES
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
I was young, but poor
now in old age I am rich,
alas, alone of all men pitiable in both, who then could
enjoy when I had nothing, and now have when I
;
cannot enjoy.
XXX
THE vine's REVENGE
EUENUS
Though thou
I
bear
fruit
when thou
eat
enough
me down
to
to the root, yet
pour libation on thee,
still
O
will
goat,
art sacrificed.
XXXI
REVERSAL
PLATO
A man
left
finding gold left a halter but he who had
the gold, not finding it, knotted the halter he
found.
;
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XXXII
TENANTS AT WILL
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
field of Achaemenides, now I am
Menippus', and again I shall pass from another to
another for the former thought once that he owned
me, and the latter thinks so now in his turn ; and I
belong to no man at all, but to Fortune.
I
was once the
:
XXXIII
PARTING COMPANY
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Hope, and thou Fortune, a long farewell ; I have
found the haven ; there is nothing more between me
and you ; make your sport of those who come after me.
XXXIV
fortune's master
PALLADAS
No more
or Fortune my concern, nor for
what remains do I reck of their deceit ; I have reached
harbour.
I am a poor man, but living in Freedom's
company I turn my face away from wealth the scorner
of poverty.
is
Hope
XXXV
BREAK OF DAY
JULIUS POLYAENUS
Hope evermore
last
steals
morning cuts short
all
away
those
life's
period,
many
till
businesses.
the
i
X
THE HUMAN COMEDY
I
PROLOGUE
STRATO
Seek not on my pages Priam
at
the
nor
altars
Medea's and Niobe's woes, nor Itys in the hidden
chambers, and the nightingales among the leaves for
of all these things former poets wrote abundantly
but, mingling with the blithe Graces, sweet Love and
the Wine-god and grave looks become not them.
•
;
II
FLOWER
O'
THE ROSE
DIONYSIUS
You
with the roses, you are fair as a rose ; but
you ? yourself, or your roses, or both
together ?
what
sell
Ill
LOST DRINK
NICARCHUS
At the Hermaea, Aphrodisius, while lifting six
gallons of wine for us, stumbled and dealt us great
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woe.
From wine also perished the Centaur,' and
ah that we had too but now it perished from us.
'
!
IV
THE VINTAGE-REVEL
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
To
the must-drinking Satyrs and to Bacchus,
planter of the vine, Heronax consecrated the first
handfuls of his plantation, these three casks frond
three vineyards, filled with the first flow of the wine ;
from which we, having poured such libation as is meet
to wine-crimsoned Bacchus and the Satyrs, will drink
deeper than they.
V
SNOW
IN
SUMMER
SIMONIDES
With this once the sharp North Wind rushing from
Thrace covered the flanks of Olympus, and nipped
the spirits of thinly-clad men
then it was buried
alive, clad in Pierian earth.
Let a share of it be
mingled for me for it is not seemly to bear a tepid
;
;
draught to a friend.
VI
A JUG OF WINE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Round-bellied,
deftly-turned,
one-eared,
longhigh-necked, bubbling in thy narrow
throated,
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[sect. lo
mouth, blithe handmaiden of Bacchus and the Muses
and Cytherea, sweetly laughing, delightful ministress
of social banquets, why when I am sober are you in
liquor, and when I am drunk, are you sober again ?
You wrong the good-fellowship of drinking.
VII
THE EMPTY JAR
ERATOSTHENES
Xenophon the wine-bibber dedicates an empty jar to
thee,
Bacchus; receive
it
graciously, for
it is all
he has,
VIII
ANGELORUM CHORI
MARCUS ARGENTARIUS
hold
regarding the golden choir of the
I spurn the dances of others
but garlanding my hair with flowers that drop their
petals over me, I waken the melodious harp into
passion with musical hands and doing thus I lead a
well-ordered life, for the order of the heavens too has
I
revel,
stars at evening,
nor do
;
;
its
Lyre and Crown.
IX
SUMMER SAILING
ANTIPHILUS
Mine be
a mattress on the poop, and the awnings
over it sounding with the blows of the spray, and the
fire forcing its way out of the hearth-stones, and a pot
upon them with empty turmoil of bubbles ; and let
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me see the boy dressing the meat, and my table be
a ship's plank covered with a cloth ; and a game of
pitch and toss, and the boatswain's whistle
the other
:
day
I
had such
fortune, for I love
common
life.
X
l'allegro
JULIANUS AEGYPTIUS
All the ways of life are pleasant ; in the marketplace are goodly companionships, and at home griefs
are hidden
the country brings pleasure, seafaring
wealth, foreign lands knowledge.
Marriages make a
united house, and the unmarried life is never anxious ;
a child is a bulwark to his father, the childless are
far from fear ; youth knows the gift of valiance, white
hairs of wisdom
therefore taking courage, live, and
beget a family.
;
:
XI
DUM VIVIMUS VIVAMUS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Six hours
shown
fit
labour best
:
and those
that follow,
forth in letters, say to mortals, 'Live.'
XII
HOPE AND EXPERIENCE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Whoso
wedding,
through a
has married once, and again seeks a second
is a shipwrecked
man who- sails twice
difficult gulf.
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XIII
AN UNGROUNDED SCANDAL
LUCILIUS
Some
you dye your hair which
the best black that can be bought in the market.
say, Nicylla, that
;
is
XIV
THE POPULAR SINGER
NICARCHUS
The
night-raven's song
is
deadly
;
but
when Demo-
philus sings, even the night-raven dies.
XV
THE FAULTLESS DANCER
PALLADAS
Snub-nosed Memphis danced Daphne and Niobe
Daphne
like a stock,
Niobe
like a stone.
XVI
THE J"ORTUNATE PAINTER
LUCILIUS
Eutychus the portrait-painter got twenty sons, and
never got one likeness, even among his children.
XVII
SLOW AND SURE
NICARCHUS
Charmus ran
others
:
for the three miles in
surprising to say, he actually
Arcadia with
came
five
in seventh.
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127
they were only six, perhaps you will say, how
seventh ? A friend of his went along in his greatand so he
Keep it up, Charmus
coat crying,
and if only he had had five more
arrives seventh
When
!
'
'
;
friends, Zoilus,
he would have come
in twelfth.
xvin
MARCUS THE RUNNER
LUCILIUS
Marcus once saw midnight out in the armed men's
race, so that the race-course was all locked up, as the
police all thought that he was one of the stone men
in armour who stand there in honour of victors.
Very well, it was opened next day, and then Marcus
turned up, still short of the goal by the whole course.
XIX
HERMOGENES
LUCILIUS
Little
Hermogenes, when he
the ground, has to drag
at the end of a pole.
it
down
lets
to
anything
fall
on
him with a hook
XX
PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING
LUCILIUS
Lean Gaius yesterday breathed his very last breath,
and left nothing at all for burial, but, having passed
down into Hades just as he was in life, flutters there
the thinnest of the anatomies under earth and his
;
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kinsfolk lifted an empty
inscribing above it, 'This
[sect. lo
on their shoulders,
Gaius' funeral.'
bier
is
XXI
A LABOUR OF HERCULES
LUCILIUS
Tiny Macron was found asleep one summer day
by a mouse, who pulled him by his tiny foot into its
hole
;
but in the hole he strangled the mouse with his
cried,
Father Zeus, thou hast a
naked hands and
second Heracles.'
'
XXII
EROTION
LUCILIUS
Small Erotion while playing was carried aloft by a
gnat, and cried, What can I do. Father Zeus, if thou
dost claim me ?
'
XXIII
ARTEMIDORA
LUCILIUS
Fanning thin Artemidora in her
blew her clean out of the house.
sleep,
Demetrius
XXIV
THE ATOMIC THEORY
LUCILIUS
Epicurus wrote that the whole universe consisted
of atoms, thinking, Alcimus, that the atom was the
But if Diophantus had lived then, he
least of things.
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would have
129
written, 'consisted of Diophantus,'
who
is
much more minute than even
the atoms, or would
have written that all other things indeed consist of
atoms, but the atoms themselves of him.
XXV
CHAEREMON
LUCILIUS
Borne up by a shght breeze, Chaeremon floated
through the clear air, far lighter than chaff, and
probably would have gone spinning off through
ether, but that he caught his feet in a spider's web,
and dangled there on his back there he hung five
nights and days, and on the sixth came down by a
;
strand of the web.
XXVI
GOD AND THE DOCTOR
NICARCHUS
Marcus the doctor called yesterday on the marble
Zeus though marble, and though Zeus, his funeral is
;
to-day.
XXVII
THE PHYSICIAN AND THE ASTROLOGER
NICARCHUS
Diophantus the astrologer said that Hermogenes
the physician had only nine months to live and he
laughingly replied, What Cronus may bring to pass
in nine months do you consider; but I can make
He spoke, and reaching out.
short work with you.'
;
'
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[SECT. lo
touched him, and Diophantus, while forbidding
another to hope, gasped out his own Ufe.
just
XXVIII
A DEADLY DREAM
LUCILIUS
Diophantus, having seen Hermogenes the physician
in sleep, never awoke again, though he wore an
amulet.
XXIX
SIMON THE OCULIST
NICARCHUS
call not down
nor Harpocrates, nor whatever god
strikes men blind, but Simon
and you will know
what God and what Simon can do.
If
you have an enemy, Dionysius,
upon him
Isis
;
XXX
SCIENTIFIC SURGERY
NICARCHUS
'
Agelaus killed Acestorides while operating;
said,
he would have been lame
Poor man,' he
'
for,
for
life.'
XXXI
THE WISE PROPHET
LUCILIUS
All the astrologers as from one
to
my
father that his brother
mouth prophesied
would reach a great old
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age
;
early
;
131
Hermocleides alone said he was fated to die
and he said so, when we were mourning over
his corpse indoors.
XXXII
SOOTHSAYING
NICARCHUS
Some one came
inquiring of the prophet Olympicus
whether he should sail to Rhodes, and how he should
have a safe voyage ; and the prophet replied, First
have a new ship, and set sail not in winter but in
summer ; for if you do this you wall travel there and
back safely, unless a pirate should capture you at sea.'
'
XXXIII
A SCHOOL OF RHETORIC
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
All hail, seven pupils of Aristides the rhetorician,
four walls and three benches.
XXXIV
THE LIBERAL ARTS
LUCILIUS
Pluto refuses to take in the dead orator Marcus,
saying, Let one dog, Cerberus, suffice us here ; but
if you insist, declaim to Ixion and MeUto the lyric
poet and Tityus for I have no worse evil than you,
until Rufus the critic comes here to murder the
'
;
language.'
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[sect. lo
XXXV
CROSS PURPOSES
NICARCHUS
A
deaf man went to law with a deaf man, and the
judge was a long way deafer than both. The one
claimed that the other owed him five months' rent
and he replied that he had ground his corn by night
then the judge, looking down on them, said, 'Why
quarrel? she is your mother; keep her between you.'
XXXVI
THE PATENT STOVE
NICARCHUS
You have bought
a brass hot-water urn, Heliothan the North wind about
Thrace ; do not blow, do not labour, you but raise
smoke in vain ; it is a brass wine-cooler you have
bought against summer.
dorus,
that
is
chillier
XXXVII
THE WOODEN HORSE
LUCILIUS
You have
a Thessalian horse, Erasistratus, but the
drugs of all Thessaly cannot make him go, the real
wooden horse, that, if Trojans and Greeks had all
pulled together, would never have entered at the
Scaean gate set it up as an offering to some god, if
you take my advice, and make gruel for your little
children with its barley.
;
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XXXVIII
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
LUCILIUS
Antiochus once set eyes on Lysimachus' cushion,
and Lysimachus never set eyes on his cushion
again.
XXXIX
CINYRAS THE CILICIAN
DEMODOCUS
bad men among the Cilicians
one good man, Cinyras, and Cinyras is a
All Cilicians are
there
is
;
Cilician.
XL
A GENERATION OF VIPERS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Keep clear of a cobra, a toad, a viper, and the
Laodiceans also of a mad dog, and of the Laodiceans once again.
;
XLI
THE LIFEBOAT
NICARCHUS
Philo had a boat,
himself, I believe, can
salvation
in
name
the
be
only,
Salvation,
but
not Zeus
safe in her; for she
and
those
who
got
was
on
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[sect. lO
board her used either to go aground or to go underground.
XLII
THE MISER AND THE MOUSE
LUCILIUS
Asclepiades the miser saw a mouse in his house,
and said, What do you want with me, my very dear
mouse ? and the mouse, smiling sweetly, replied,
Do not be afraid, my friend ; we do not ask board
from you, only lodging.'
'
'
'
XLIH
VEGETARIANISM
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
You were
not alone in keeping your hands off
live things
we do so too ; who touches live food,
Pythagoras? but we eat what has been boiled and
roasted and pickled, and there is no life in it then.
;
XLIV
nicon's nose
NICARCHUS
it is
I see Nicon's beak of a nose, Menippus
evident he is still a long way off; but he will arrive
for at the most he is not, I
if we wait patiently
Here it is, you
fancy, five stadia behind the nose.
see, stepping forward ; if we stand on a high mound
we shall catch sight of him in person.
;
;
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XLV
WHY
SO PALE
AND WAN, FOND LOVER
ASCLEPIADES
Drink, Asclepiades ; why these tears ? what ails
? not of you only has the cruel Cyprian made
her prey, nor for you only bitter Love whetted the
arrows of his bow ; why while yet alive lie you in the
you
dust?
XLVI
THE world's revenge
LUCIAN
In a company where all were drunk, Acindynus
must needs be sober and so he seemed himself the
;
one drunk man
there.
XLVH
EPILOGUE
PHILODEMUS
I
was
revelled
mad
;
go
for
in love
;
at
who
is
once
;
who has
not been
uninitiated in revels
?
whose prompting but a god's
?
?
I
have
nay, I was
Let them
now
the silver hair is fast replacing the black,
a messenger of wisdom that comes with age.
too played when the time of playing was ; and now
that it is no longer, we will turn to worthier thoughts.
;
We
XI
DEATH
I
THE SPAN OF LIFE
MACEDONIUS
Earth and Birth-Goddess, thou who didst bear me
and thou who coverest, farewell I have accom;
plished the course between you, and I go, not discerning whither I shall travel for I know not either
whose or who I am, or whence I came to you.
;
II
DUSTY DEATH
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Pay no
offering of ointments or garlands
stony tomb, nor
make
the
fire
blaze
up
;
on
my
the expense
live be kind to me if thou wilt
ashes with wine thou wilt make
mire, and the dead man will not drink.
is
in vain.
While
but drenching
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my
I
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137
III
A CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC
LEON IDAS OF TARENTUM
A little dust of earth suffices me let another
;
lie
weighed down by his extravagant tombstone,
that grim weight over the dead, who will know me
here in death as Alcander son of Calliteles.
richly,
IV
BENE MERENTI
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Dear Earth, take old Amyntichus to thy bosom,
remembering his many labours on thee for ever he
planted in thee the olive-stock, and often made thee
fair with vine-cuttings, and filled thee full of corn,
;
and, drawing channels of water along, made thee rich
with herbs and plenteous in fruit do thou in return
lie softly over his grey temples and flower into tresses
of spring herbage.
:
V
PEACE IN THE END
DIONVSIUS
A
and no dulling disease quenched
and thou didst fall asleep in the slumber to
which all must come, O Eratosthenes, after pondering over high matters nor did Cyrene where thou
gentler old age
thee,
;
sawest the light receive thee within the tomb of thy
fathers, O son of Aglaus ; yet dear even in a foreign
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[sect, ii
land art thou buried, here by the edge of the beach
of Proteus.
VI
THE WITHERED VINE
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Even
as a vine on her dry pole I support myself
a staff, a^d death calls me to Hades.
Be
not obstinately deaf,
Gorgus ; what is it the sweeter
for thee if for three or four summers yet thou shalt
warm thyself beneath the sun ? ' So saying the aged
man quietly put his life aside, and removed his house
to the greater company.
'
now on
O
VII
ACCOMPLISHMENT
THEAETETUS
Delightful to men and yet more delightful to the
Muses was Grantor, and did not live far into age
O
earth, didst
or does he
still
thou enfold the sacred
live in gladness there ?
man
in death,
VIII
LOCA PASTORUM DESERTA
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Naiads and
chill
when they come on
cattle-pastures, tell to the bees
their
springtide way, that old
Leucippus perished on a winter's night, setting snares
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scampering hares, and no longer
for
of the
mourn
peak
is
the tending
hives dear to him
but the pastoral dells
sore for him who dwelt with the mountain
;
for neighbour.
IX
THE OLD SHEPHERD
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Shepherds who pass over this ridge of hill pasturing your goats and fleecy sheep, pay to Clitagoras,
in Earth's name, a small but kindly grace, for the
sake of Persephone under ground let sheep bleat
by me, and on an unhewn stone the shepherd pipe
;
them as they feed, and in early spring let
countryman pluck the meadow flower to enwreathe my tomb with a garland, and. let one make
milk drip from a fruitful ewe, holding up her milking-
softly to
the
udder,
base of my tomb
there are
favours to dead men, there are, even
the departed.
to
wet the
:
returns for
among
X
THE DEAD FOWLER
MNASALCAS
Even here
shall the holy bird rest his swift wing,
on this murmuring plane, since Poemander
the Malian is dead and comes no more with birdlime smeared on his fowling reeds.
sitting
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XI
THE ANT BY THE THRESHING-FLOOR
Here
to
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
by the threshing-floor, O toiUng
rear a memorial to thee of a thirsty
thee
worker ant, I
clod, that even in death the corn-nurturing furrow
of Demeter may lull thee as thou liest in thy rustic
cell.
XII
THE TAME PARTRIDGE
SIMMIAS
No more
along the shady woodland copse, O
hunter partridge, dost thou send thy clear cry from
thy mouth as thou decoyest thy speckled kinsfolk in
their forest feeding-ground
for thou art gone on the
final road of Acheron.
;
XIII
THE SILENT SINGING-BIRD
TYMNES
O
beloved of the Graces, O rivalling the
halcyons in likeness of thy note, thou art snatched
away, dear warbler, and thy ways and thy sweet
breath are held in the silent paths of night.
bird
XIV
THE FIELDS OF PERSEniONE
ARISTODICUS
No
O
longer in the wealthy house of Alois,
shrill
grasshopper, shall the sun behold thee singing; for
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now thou art flown to the meadows of Clymenus and
the dewy flowers of golden Persephone.
XV
THE DISCONSOLATE SHEPHERD
THEOCRITUS
Ah
thou poor Thyrsis, what profit is it if thou
shalt waste away the apples of thy two eyes with
tears in thy mourning? the kid is gone, the pretty
young thing, is gone to Hades for a savage wolf
crunched her in his jaws and the dogs bay what
profit is it, when of that lost one not a bone nor a
;
;
;
cinder
is left ?
XVI
LAMPO THE HOUND
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
Lampo, Midas' dog, though he
hard for his life for he dug with his paws in
the moist flat, but the slow water made no haste out
of her blind spring, and he fell in despair ; then the
water gushed out.
Ah surely. Nymphs, you laid on
Lampo your wrath for the slain deer.
Thirst slew hunter
toiled
;
XVII
^'
STORM ON THE HILLS
DIOTIMUS
Unherded
yard from the
came to the farmsnowed on with heavy snow ; alas,
at evenfall the cattle
hill,
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and Therimachus
[SECT. II
sleeps the long sleep beside an
oak, stretched there by
fire
from heaven.
XVIII
A WET NIGHT
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
I
or
know not whether
blame the
I shall
rain of Zeus, but
complain of Dionysus
both are treacherous
For the tomb holds Polyxenus, who returning once to the country from a feast, tumbled off the
slippery slopes, and lies far from Aeolic Smyrna
therefore let one full of wine fear a rainy footpath in
the dark.
for feet.
XIX
FAR FROM HOME
TYMNES
be of too much moment to thee, O
Philaenis, that thou hast not found thine allotted
earth by the Nile, but this tomb holds thee in Eleufor to comers from all places there is an
therne
equal way to Hades.
Let not
this
;
XX
DEATH AT SEA
SIMONIDES
Strange dust covers thy body, and the lot of death
took thee, O Cleisthenes, wandering in the Euxine
sea ; and thou didst fail of sweet and dear homecoming, nor ever didst reach sea-girt Chios.
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XXI
AT THE world's END
CRINAGORAS
Alas,
why wander
and
we, trusting in vain hopes
forgetting baneful death ? this Seleucus was perfect
in his words and ways, but, having enjoyed his youth
but a
far
little,
among
the utmost Iberians, so far and
lies a stranger on un-
away from Lesbos, he
mapped
shores.
XXII
IN LIMINE PORTUS
ANTIPHILUS
Already almost in touch of my native land, Tothe wind that has set so long
morrow,' I said,
against me will abate ; not yet had the speech died
on my lip, and the sea was even as Hades., and that
Beware of every speech
light word broke me down.
with to-morrow in it not even small things escape
the Nemesis that avenges the tongue.
'
'
'
;
XXIII
DROWNED
IN
HARBOUR
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Not even when
anchor trust the baleful sea,
dry land hold thy cables ; for
Ion fell into the harbour, and at the plunge wine
tied his quick sailor's hands.
Beware of revelling on
ship-board
the sea is enemy to lacchus ; this law
the Tyrrhenians ordained.
O
sailor,
nor even
;
at
if
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XXIV
IN
SOUND OF THE SEA
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Even in death shall the implacable sea vex me,
Lysis hidden beneath a lonely rock, ever sounding
harshly by my ear and alongside of my deaf tomb.
Why, O fellow-men, have you made my dweUing by
this that reft me of breath, me whom, not trading in
my merchant-ship but sailing in a little rowing boat,
it brought to shipwreck ? and I, who sought my living
out of the sea, out of the sea likewise drew my death.
XXV
THE EMPTY HOUSE
ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA
Hapless Nicanor, doomed by the grey sea, thou
liest then naked on a strange beach, or haply by the
rocks, and those wealthy halls are perished from thee,
and lost is the hope of all Tyre nor did aught of thy
thou didst
treasures save thee ; alas, pitiable one
perish, and all thy labour was for the fishes and
;
!
the sea.
XXVI
THE
sea's
HARVEST
ISIDORUS AEGEATES
From my plot of land hope of the sea drew me
Eteocles to be a merchant of foreign traffic, and I
fared on the ridges of the Tyrrhene brine; but I
sank with my ship, overwhelmed in its waters, under
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full
145
weight of the gale not the same is the wind
on the threshing-floor and on the canvas.
:
that blows
XXVII
THE SINKING OF THE PLEIAD
AUTO MED ON
O
man, be sparing of life, neither go on sea-faring
out of season even so the life of man is not long.
;
Miserable Cleonicus, yet thou didst hasten to come
to fair Thasos, a merchantman out of hollow Syria,
O merchant Cleonicus ; but hard on the sinking of
the Pleiad while thou journeyedst over the sea, as
the Pleiad sank, so didst thou.
XXVIII
A RESTLESS GRAVE
ARCHIAS
Not even in death shall I Theris, tossed shipwrecked upon land by the waves, forget the sleepless
beneath the spray-beaten reefs, nigh the
I found a grave at the hands of
strangers, and for ever do I wretchedly hear roaring
even among the dead the hated thunder of the sea.
shores
;
for
disastrous main,
XXIX
TELLURIS AMOR
CRINAGORAS
O happy shepherd, would that I
on the mountain along
this
too had shepherded
white grassy hill, making
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[SECT. II
the bleating flock move after the leader rams, rather
than have dipped a ship's steering-rudders in the
bitter brine
so I sank under the depths, and the
East wind that swallowed me down cast me up again
:
on
this shore,
XXX
A GRAVE BY THE SEA
ASCLEPIADES
away from me, O rough sea, and
thy might but if thou puUest
down the grave of Eumares, thou wilt find nothing
of value; but only bones and dust,
Keep
billow
eight cubits
and roar with
all
;
XXXI
AN EMPTY
TOxMB
CALLIMACHUS
Would that swift ships had never been, for we
should not have bewailed Sopolis son of Diocleides
but now somewhere in the sea he drifts dead, and
instead of him we pass by a name on an empty tomb.
XXXII
THE DAYS OF THE HALCYONS
APOLLONIDES
And when
be free from
even in the days of the halcyons
we must weep, of the halcyons for whom Ocean evermore stills his windless wave, that one might think
dry land less trustworthy ? but even when thou callest
fear, say,
O
shall thy swirling passage
sea, if
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and harmless to women in
drown Aristomenes with his freight.
thyself a gentle nurse
labour, thou didst
XXXIII
A WINTER VOYAGE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Thee too, son of Cleanor, desire after thy native
land destroyed, trusting to the wintry gust of the
South for the unsecured season entangled thee, and
the wet waves washed away thy lovely youth.
;
XXXIV
THE DEAD CHILD
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Not yet were thy tresses cut, nor had the monthly
courses of the moon driven a three-years' space,
poor Cleodicus, when thy mother Nicasis, clasping
thy coffin, wailed long over thy lamented grave, and
thy father Pericleitus ; but by unknown Acheron thou
shalt flower out the youth that never, never returns.
O
XXXV
THE LITTLE SISTER
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
passed to Hades untimely, in her seventh
many playmates, poor thing, pining
for her baby brother, who at twenty months old tasted
of loveless Death.
Alas, ill-fated Peristeris, how near
at hand God has set the sorest griefs to men.
This
girl
year, before her
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XXXVI
PERSEPHONE'S PLAYTHING
AUTHOR UNKXOM.V
inflexible, why hast thou
Callaeschrus of life ? Surely the child
will be a plaything in the palace of Persephone, but
at home he has left bitter sorrows.
Hades inexorable and
thus
reft infant
XXXVII
CHILDLESS AMONG WOMEN
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
Ah
laid
wretched Anticles, and wretched I who have
in the flower of youth my only son,
on the pyre
I
who didst perish at eighteen years and
weep, bewailing an orphaned old age fain would
I
go to the shadowy house of Hades
thee, child,
;
:
neither is morn
beam of the swift sun. Ah
struck down by fate, be thou
;
sweet to me, nor the
wretched Anticles,
healer of
my
sorrow, taking
me
with thee out of
life.
XXXVIII
fate's PERSISTENCY
PHILIPPUS
I Philaenion who gave birth but for the pyre, I
the woeful mother, I who had seen the threefold
grave of my children, anchored my trust on another's
pangs for I surely hoped that he at least would live,
whom I had not borne. So I, who once had fair
;
up an adopted son ; but God would
have even a second mother's grace ; for
children, brought
not
let
me
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being called ours he perished, and
woe to the rest of mothers too.
149
now
I
am become
a
XXXIX
ANTE DIEM
BIANOR
Ever insatiate Charon, why hast thou wantonly
taken young Attains ? was he not thine, even if he
had died old ?
XL
UNFORGOTTEN
SIMONIDES
Protomachus said, as his father held him in his
hands when he was breathing away his lovely youth,
O son of Timenor, thou wilt never forget thy dear
son, nor cease to long for his valour and his wisdom.'
'
XLI
THE BRIDECHAMBER
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
Already the saffron-strewn bride-bed was spread
within the golden wedding-chamber for the bride of
Pitane, Cleinareta, and her guardians Demo and
Nicippus hoped to light the torch-flame held at
stretch of arm and lifted in both hands, when sickness snatched her away yet a maiden, and drew her
to the sea of Lethe ; and her sorrowing companions
knocked not on the bridal doors, but on their own
smitten breasts in the clamour of death.
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XLII
BRIDEGROOM DEATH
MELEAGER
Not marriage but Death for bridegroom did Clearista
receive when she loosed the knot of her maidenhood
•
:
for but
portal,
now
even the flutes sounded at the bride's
and the doors of the wedding-chamber were
clashed
;
at
and
morn they
at
Hymenaeus put
to silence
cried the wail, and
changed into a voice of
and the same pine-brands flashed their
and lit the dead on
her downward way.
lamentation
;
torchlight before the bride-bed,
XLIII
THE YOUNG WIFE
JULIANUS AEGYPTIUS
In season the bride-chamber held thee, out of
season the grave took thee, O Anastasia, flower of
the bUthe Graces for thee a father, for thee a husband pours bitter tears for thee haply even the
ferryman of the dead weeps for not a whole year
didst thou accomplish beside thine husband, but at
the tomb holds thee.
sixteen years old, alas
;
;
;
!
XLIV
SANCTISSIMA CONIUNX
CRINAGORAS
I
Unhappy, by what first word, by what second shall
name thee ? unhappy this word is true in every ill.
Thou
!
art gone,
gracious wife,
who
didst carry off
;
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bloom of beauty and in bearing of soul
Prote wert thou truly called, for all else came second
to those inimitable graces of thine.
the palm in
XLV
SUNDERED HANDS
DAMAGETUS
This last word, O famous city of Phocaea, Theano
spoke as she went down into the unharvested night
Woe 's me unhappy Apellichus, husband, what
length, what length of sea dost thou cross on thine
own ship but nigh me stands my doom would
.
.;
'
;
;
!
God
I
had but died with
my hand
clasped in thy
dear hand.'
XLVI
UNDIVIDED
APOLLONIDES
Heliodorus went first, and Diogeneia the wife, not
an hour's space after, followed her dear husband ; and
both, as they dwelt together, are buried under this
slab, rejoicing in their common tomb even as in a
bride-chamber.
XLVII
FIRST LOVE
MELEAGER
Tears
I give to thee even below with earth between
Heliodora, such relic of love as may pass to Hades,
tears sorely wept ; and on thy much-wailed tomb I
us,
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pour the libation of
my
my
longing,
[sect.
1
the memorial of
Piteously, piteously, I Meleager make
lamentation for thee, my dear, even among the dead,
an idle gift to Acheron. Woe's me, where is my
affection.
cherished flower?
Hades plucked her, plucked her
and marred the freshly-blown blossom with his dust.
But I beseech thee, Earth that nurturest all, gently
to clasp her, the all-lamented, O mother, to thy
breast.
XLVIII
FIRST FRIENDSHIP
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Ah
blessed one, dearest companion of the immortal
Muses, fare thou well even in the house of Hades,
CaUimachus.
XLIX
STREWINGS FOR GRAVES
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
May flowers grow thick on thy newly-built tomb,
not the dry bramble, not the evil weed, but violets
and marjoram and wet narcissus, Vibius, and around
thee may all be roses.
L
THE LIBERATOR
DAMASCIUS
Zosime, who was once a slave in body
her body likewise has now found freedom.
alone, for
—
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LI
DIMITTE MORTUOS
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
My name — Why
this? — and my country — And
race — Yea,
—and am of
thou hadst been of the obscurest? — Having
nobly
here now
— ignobly — and
what end
this
?
to
illustrious
I
lived
if
Who
art
?
If
I left life
thou that sayest
this,
I lie
and
to
whom ?
LII
MORS IMMORTALIS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
I died,
some one
but
else
I
:
await thee and thou too shalt await
one Death receives all mortals alike.
;
LIII
[the light of the dead
PLATO
Morning
Star that
once didst shine among the
shinest the Evening Star
living,
now deceased thou
among
the dead.
XII
LIFE
I
THE JOY OF YOUTH
Let us
RUFINUS
and garland
bathe, Prodice,
ourselves,
and
drain unmixed wine, lifting larger cups ; little is our
life of gladness, then old age will stop the rest, and
death is the end.
II
THE USE OF LIFE
NICARCHUS
not die? what matters it to me whether
I depart to Hades gouty or fleet of foot ? for many
will carry me ; let me become lame, for hardly on
their account need I ever cease from revelling.
Must
I
Ill
VAIN RICHES
ANTIPHANES
Thou
reckonest, poor wretch ; but advancing time
breeds white old age even as it does interest ; and
neither having drunk, nor bound a flower on thy
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1-6]
155
brows, nor ever known myrrh nor a delicate darling,
thou shalt be dead, leaving thy great treasury in its
wealth, out of those many coins carrying with thee
but the one.
IV
MINIMUM CREDULA POSTERO
PALLADAS
human must pay the debt of
any mortal who knows whether he
All
death, nor
shall
be
is
there
alive to-
learning this clearly, O man, make thee
;
merry, keeping the wine-god close by thee for oblivion of death, and take thy pleasure with the
Paphian while thou drawest thy ephemeral life but
all else give to Fortune's control.
morrow
;
V
DONEC HODIE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Drink and be merry for what is to-morrow or
what the future ? no man knows. Run not, labour
not; as thou canst, give, share, consume, be mortalminded to be alive and not to be alive are no way
;
;
at all apart.
scale
;
if
thou
All
life
is
such, only the turn of the
it is thine ; and if thou
thou hast nothing.
art beforehand,
diest, all is another's
and
VI
REQUIESCE ANIMA
MIMNERMUS
Be young, dear my soul soon will
and I being dead shall be dark earth.
:
others be men,
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VII
ONE EVENT
MARCUS ARGENTARIUS
Five feet shalt thou possess as thou liest dead, nor
shalt see the pleasant things of Hfe nor the beams of
the sun; then joyfully lift and drain the unmixed cup
of wine, O Cincius, with thine arm clasped round thy
lovely wife
and if philosophy say that thy mind is
immortal, know that Cleanthes and Zeno went down
;
to
deep Hades.
VIII
THE PASSING OF VOUTH
APOLLONIDES
Thou
slumberest,
cries to thee,
'
O
Awake
;
comrade but the cup itself
do not make thy pleasure in
;
the rehearsal of death.' Spare not, Diodorus, slipping
greedily into wine, drink deep, even to the tottering
of the knee.
Time shall be when we shall not drink,
long and long ; nay, come, make haste ; prudence
already lays her hand on our temples.
IX
THE HIGHWAV TO DEATH
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
Men
but
all
I
to
shall
me brief-fated I am,
There is one descent for
ours comes quicker, the sooner
skilled in the stars call
care not,
O
Hades and if
we look on Minos.
;
;
vSeleucus.
Let us drink
;
for surely
;
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wine
is a horse for the high-road,
take a by-path to Death.
157
when
foot-passengers
X
BEFORE THE DELUGE
STRATO
Drink now and
Damocrates, since not for
ever shall we drink nor for ever hold fast our delight
let us crown our heads with garlands and perfume
ourselves, before others bring these offerings to our
graves.
Now rather let my bones drink wine inside
me ; and when they are dead, let Deucalion's deluge
sweep them away.
love,
XI
FLEETING DAWN
ASCLEPIADES
Let us drink an unmixed draught of wine dawn is
an hand-breadth are we waiting to see the bed-time
lamp once again ? Let us drink merrily after no
long time yet, O luckless one, we shall sleep through
the long night.
;
;
;
XII
OUTRE-TOMBE
JULIANUS AEGYPTJUS
Often
cry
it
dust.'
:
sang this, and even out of the grave will I
Drink, before you put on this raiment of
I
'
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XIII
EARTH TO EARTH
ZONAS
Give me the sweet cup wrought of the earth
from which I was born, and under which I shall
lie
dead.
XIV
THE COFFIN-MAKER
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
would have liked to be rich as Croesus of old was
rich, and to be king of great Asia
but when I look
on Nicanor the coffin-maker, and know for what he is
making these flute-cases of his, sprinkling my flour
and wetting it with my jug of wine, I sell all Asia for
ointments and garlands.
I
;
XV
RETURNING SPRING
PHILODEMUS
Now
rose-time and peas are in season, and the
heads of early cabbage,
Sosylus, and the milky
maena, and fresh-curdled cheese and the soft-springing
leaves of curled lettuces ; and do we neither pace the
foreland, nor climb to the outlook, as always,
Sosylus, we did before ? for Antigenes and Bacchius
too frolicked yesterday, and now to-day we bear them
is
O
O
forth for burial.
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159
.
XVI
A life's wandering
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Know
ye the flowery fields of the Cappadocian
thence I was born of good parents since I
left them I have wandered to the sunset and the
dawn my name was Glaphyrus, and like my mind.
I lived out my sixtieth year in perfect freedom ; I
know both the favour of Fortune and the bitterness
nation
?
:
;
of
life.
XVII
ECCE MYSTERIUM
BIANOR
This man, inconsiderable, mean,
man
is
loved,
and
is
yes, a slave, this
lord of another's soul.
XVIII
THE SHADOW OF
LIFE
THEOGNIS
Fools and children are mankind to weep the dead,
and not the flower of youth perishing.
XIX
THE HOUSE OF FAME
CALLIMACHUS
Theaetetus followed the pure way ; and though this
path leads not, O Bacchus, to thine ivy, the name of
others shall be uttered by heralds but for a little while,
and his wisdom by Hellas for ever.
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XX
THE SHADOW OF DEATH
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Those who have
longer,
left
who
but those
the sweet light I bewail no
live ever in expectation of
death.
XXI
PARTA QUIES
PALLADAS
Expectation of death is woeful grief, and this is the
gain of a mortal when he perishes
weep not then for
him who departs from life, for after death there is no
other accident.
;
xxn
THE CLOSED ACCOUNT
PHILETAS
I
weep not
O dearest of friends ; for thou
things; and in turn God dealt
for thee,
knewest many
thee thy lot of
fair
ill.
XXIII
THE VOYAGE OF LIFE
PALLADAS
Life
in
it
is
we
a dangerous voyage ; for tempest-tossed
often strike rocks more pitiably than ship-
LIFE
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i6i
and having Chance as pilot of life, we
wreckcHl men
sail doubtfully as on the sea, some on a fair voyage,
and others contrariwise ; yet all alike we put into the
;
one anchorage under
earth.
XXIV
DAILY IMRTII
PALLADAS
Day by day we
are born as night retires,
no more
possessing aught of our former life, estranged from
our course of yesterday, and beginning to-day the hfe
Do not then call thyself, old man,
that remains.
abundant in years ; for to-day thou hast no share in
what is gone.
XXV
THE LIMIT OF VISION
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Now we
others
will,
before others did and soon
flourish as
whose children we
shall
never
see.
XXVI
THE BREATH OF LIFE
PALLADAS
our nostrils we live and look
on the torch of the sun, all we who live what is called
life
and are as organs, receiving our spirits from
quickening airs and if one chokes that little breath
Breathing thin
air in
;
:
L
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with his hand, he robs us of
life,
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and brings us down
Hades. Thus being nothing we wax high
hood, feeding on air from a httle breath.
to
in hardi-
XXVII
TWO ETERNITIES
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM
O man, was the foretime until thou camest
dawn, and what remains is infinite on through
Hades what share is left for life but the bigness of
a pinprick, and tinier than a pinprick if such there
be ? Little is thy life and afflicted for not even so
Infinite,
to thy
:
;
it is
sweet, but
more loathed than
hateful death.
XXVIII
THE LORD OF LANDS
AMMIANUS
Though thou
pass beyond thy landmarks far as the
pillars of Heracles, the share of earth that is equal to
all men awaits thee, and thou shalt lie even as Irus,
having nothing more than thine obolus, mouldering
into a land that at last is not thine.
XXIX
THE PRICE OF RICHES
PALLADAS
Thou art rich, and what of it in the end? as thou
departest, dost thou drag thy riches with thee, pulling
LIFE
27-32]
them
the
into
coftin
?
-
Thou
gatherest
163
riches
at
expense of time, and thou canst not heap up more
exceeding measures of life.
XXX
THE DARKNESS OF DAWN
AM MI ANUS
Morning by morning passes then, while we heed
not, suddenly the Dark One will be come, and, some
by decaying, and some by parching, and some by
;
swelling, will lead us all to the
one
pit.
XXXI
NIL EXPEDIT
PALLADAS
Naked
earth,
end
came on
I
and why do
I
earth,
and naked
I
depart under
vainly labour, seeing the
naked
?
XXXII
THE WAY OF THE WORLD
LUCIAN
Mortal
is
pass by us
;
what belongs to mortals, and all things
and if not, yet we pass by them.
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
i64
[sect. 12
XXXIII
THE SUM OF KNOWLEDGE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
I
all;
was
not, I
and who
came
to
shall say
be I w.is, I
more, will lie
;
am
:
I
not
:
that
is
shall not be.
XXXIV
NIHILISM
GI.YCON
All
is
laughter,
for out of
and
unreason
all
is all
is
dust,
that
and
all is
nothing
is.
XXXV
NEPENTHE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
How was
I
to go again
:
born
?
whence am
how can
I
I ?
why
did
learn anything,
I
come ?
knowing
nothing ^ Being nothing, I was born again I shall
be as I was before nothing and nothing-worth is the
human race. Come then, serve to me the joyous
fountain of Bacchus
for this is the drug counter;
;
;
charming
ills.
XXXVI
THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE
PALLADAS
We
all
are watched
and fed
swine butchered wantonly.
for
Death as a herd of
LIFE
33-39]
165
XXXVII
LACKIMAE RERUM
PALLADAS
and having wept I die, and I
amid many tears. O tearful,
weak, pitiable raee of men, dragged under earth and
mouldering away
^^'ecping I was born
found
all
my
living
!
XXXVIII
THE world's worth
AESOPUS
How
might one escape thee,
O
for thy sorrows are numberless,
nor endurance
is
easy.
life,
without dying
?
and neither escape
For sweet indeed are thy
beautiful things of nature, earth, sea, stars, the orbs
of moon and sun ; but all else fears and pains, and
though
succeeds
one have a good thing befal him,
it
there
an answering Nemesis.
XXXIX
riS-ALLER
THEOGNIS
Of all things not to be born into the world is best,
nor to see the beams of the keen sun but being born,
as swiftly as may be to pass the gates of Hades, and
lie under a heavy heap of earth.
;
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
i66
[SECT. 12
XL
THE SORROW OF LIFE
POSIDIPPUS
What path
may one hold ? In the marketand hard dealings, in the house
in the country labour enough, and at sea
and abroad, if thou hast aught, fear, and if
place are
cares
;
terror;
thou
of Hfe
strifes
Art married ? thou
poverty, vexation.
be without anxieties ; unmarried ? thy life is
Children ar^, troubles a childless life
yet lonelier.
is a crippled one.
Youth is foolish, and grey hairs
again feeble.
In the end, then, the choice is of one
of these two, either never to be born, or, as soon as
art in
wilt not
;
born, to die.
XLI
THE JOY OF LIFE
METRODORUS
Hold every path
In the market-place are
in
in the house rest
the country the charm of nature, and at sea gain
and abroad, if thou hast aught, glory, and if thou art
Art married ? so
in poverty, thou alone knowest it.
will thine household be best ; unmarried ? thy life is
Children are darlings a childless life is
yet lighter.
an unanxious one. Youth is strong, and grey hairs
The choice is not, then, of one of
again reverend.
the two, either never to be born or to die ; for all things
of
life.
honours and prudent dealings,
;
;
are
good
in
life.
T.IFE
40-451
167
XLII
QUIETISM
TALLADAS
Why
vainly,
O
man, dost thou labour and disturb
everything when thou art slave to the lot of thy
birth ?
Yield thyself to it, strive not with Heaven,
and, accepting thy fortune, be content with quiet.
XLIII
EQUANIMITY
PALLADAS
which bears all things bears thee, bear thou
and be borne and if thou art indignant and vexest
thyself, even so that which bears all things bears thee.
If that
;
XLIV
THE RULES OF THE GAME
PALLADAS
a stage and a game
laying by seriousness, or bear
All
it,
life is
:
either learn to play
its
pains.
XLV
THE ONE HOPE
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS
It is not living that has essential delight, but throwing away out of the breast cares that silver the
temples.
I would have wealth sufificient for me, and
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
i68
[SECT. 12
the excess of maddening care for gold ever eats away
the spirit
thus among men thou wilt find often
death better than life, as poverty than wealth.
Knowing this, do thou make straight the paths of
thine heart, looking to the one hope, Wisdom.
;
XLVI
AMOR MYSTICUS
MARIANUS
Where
is
that backward-bent
bow of
thine,
and the
reeds that leap from thy hand and stick fast in midheart? where are thy wings.? where thy grievous
torch ? and why carriest thou three crowns in thy
I spring
hands, and wearest another on thy head ?
stranger, I am not
not from the common Cyprian,
from earth, the offspring of sensual joy ; but I light
the torch of learning in pure human minds, and lead
And I twine crowns
the soul upwards into heaven.
of the four virtues whereof carrying these, one from
each, I crown myself with the first, the crown of
—
O
;
Wisdom.
XLVII
THE LAST WORD
PALLADAS
much, O man, and thou art laid in
keep silence, and while thou yet
earth after a little
livest, meditate on death.
Thou
talkest
;
;
INDEX
AUTHORS OF EPIGRAMS
Addaeus,
12
v.
vi.
;
1
15
45
ii.
vii,
;
9,
iv.
20
18,
;
vi. 2.
4
ii.
Ammianus,
Anacreon,
iv. 3
;
Antipaler of Sidon, ii. 8, 30, 42 ;
iii. 27 ; iv. 2,
4, 9, 10, 46
vi. 27; vii. 19; ix. II, 20;
41
xii. 9.
;
;
;
;
9
vi.
;
17
;
Demodocus,
Anyte, ii. 37
Apollonides,
32,
46
Arabius,
Aichias,
;
vi.
14, 24.
ix.
;
38
39
iv.
ii.
13
2i
iv.
;
8
;
Aristodicus, xi. 14.
Ariston, iv. 27.
iv. 33.
Asclepiades,
i.
69
;
ix.
8
;
2,
X.
Erinna, iii. 43
Erycius, iii. 16.
x. 7.
iv.
34.
Euenus, vi. 19 ; ix.
Euphorion, iii. 14
vii.
30.
;'
xi.
30
;
6.
xii.
25.
ii.
Glaucus, iii. 23;
Glycon, xii. 34.
Hegesippus,
Hermocreon,
8, 27, 28, 66,
45
xi. 41;.
;
a. 39.
Gaetulicus,
v, 7,
xi. 28.
Artemidorus,
vii.
xi.
;
29.
vi.
;
;
;
Diodorus, iii. 47, 48.
Dionysius, ii. 18; x. 2; xi. 5.
Dioscorides, i. 58 iii. 55 ; iv. 11.
Diotimus, iii. 41 ; xi. 17.
;
9
ii.
xii. 8.
;
25
iii.
Eratosthenes,
x.
xi. 22.
;
17
xi. 50.
;
3, 12
ii.
v.
;
;
;
Antiphilus,
41
2.
;
Antipater of Thessalonica, i. 23
ii, 8
iii. 44
iv. 22
vii. 7
Ix. 14, 21, 25
xi. 23-25.
Antiphanes, xii. 3.
;
19.
21, 2y, 44.
Daniascius,
xi. II, 16, 18,
ii.
Damagetus,
8.
iii.
xi.
xii.
iv.
;
viii.
;
10.
vi.
Crinagoras,
13
23.
ix.
;
28, 30.
xii.
12,
vii.
;
4 ; ix. 15 ; xi. 31 ;
Carphyllides, vii. 22.
4;
Alpheus,
29-31
Cometas,
Alcaeus of Messene,
13,
;
;
26,
22.
ix.
;
Cai.i.imachus, i. 13, 37 ii.
26 iii. 22, 36, 42, 62, 67
8.
Aeschylus, iii. 9, 13.
Aesopus, xii. 38.
Agathias, i. 9, 29, 34;
iii. 60 ; iv.
43 ; v. 2 ;
11.
viii.
28.
16 ;
ii.
ii.
vi. 7.
ISIDORUS Aegeates,
26.
xi.
II.
Asclepiodotus,
Automedon,
ix.
Bacchylides,
Bianor,
vii.
Joannes Barbucallus,
19.
18;
ii.
Julianus Aegyptius,
43;
35.
xi.
39;
vii. 8,
20.
xi. 27.
xii. 17.
xii.
x.
10
;
xi.
12.
Julius Polyaenus,
ii.
i
;
169
ix.
35.
GREEK ANTHOLOGY
170
Leonidas
of Tarentuin, ii. 24 ;
iv. 7 ; v. 10,
20, 26, 52
iii.
13
;
vi.
;
26
3,
28
ix.
;
;
;
24;
iv.
X.
4
;
27.
xii.
xi- 3> 6, 9, 35, 37
Leontius, iv. 19.
Lucian, iii. 34 x. 46
Lucilius,
;
32.
16, 18-
xii.
;
x. 13,
Paulus Silentiarius,
26, 33. 35 ;
51 ; xii. 45.
Perses, v. 11.
Phaedimus, iii. 30
Phaennus, iii. 59Phanias,
xii.
Philippus,
Macedonius,
5,
7
xi.
V.
;
4
22, 36,
i.
vii.
;
i
43
lO
ix. 9,
;
ii.
;
;
I.
Maecius, i. 63 ; ii. 10.
Marcus Argentarius, i.4, 38, 53
vi. 16 ; ix. I, 16 ; x. 8 ; xii.
46.
9
i. 6, 10-12, 16-20, 24,
25, 32, 42, 45-49, 51, 52, 5456, 59-62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 7075 ; iv. 16, 17 ; vii. 11 ; viii.
vi.
xii.
;
8-10, 13, 14;
I, 3, 6,
xi.
3;
X.
iv.
14,
ix.
18, 31
47
Plato, ii. 22
Pompeius,
Mimnermus,
xii. 6.
Mnasalcas,
12
viii.
iii.
;
5
;
23
vi.
;
10.
xi.
;
41.
40
ii.
Nicarchus,
3O'
29.
xii.
32,
ii.
Nossis,
i.
29;
3
vi.
;
31. 36,
37...
Painphilus,
Parmenio,
Pan has! us,
31
iii.
44;
;
Rhianus,
Rufinus, i.7, 30;
v.
9;
27
;
ix.
34
xii.
i.
;
xi.
iii.
28;
x.
16;
vii.
7.
Theaetetus
Scholasticus, v. i.
Theocritus,
ii.
15,
19,
;
;
;
10.
Tymnes,
iii.
;
38
xi.
ZoNAS,
ii.
;
58;
xi.
31, 32;
13, 19.
xii.
13.
iv.
15.
ix. 5.
3.
47.
;
15.'
vi.
Thy modes,
iv.
5
Secundus, ix. 6.
Simmias, iv. 12; xi. 12.
Simonides, iii. 1,2, 4, 6, 10, 24,
42-44. 47-
iii.
2;
ix.
23 vi. 13 ; vii. 10
Theodorides, iii. 19.
Theognis, xii. 18, 39.
v. 6.
15.
21.
iv.
;
32.
iv.
Theophanes, i. 41.
Thucydides, iv. 13.
vi.
21
ii.
;
21, 23, 24, 26, 29,
ii.
xii. 4,
i
viii. 2.
Theaetetos,
28.
26, 27,
36, 41.
35-
iv.
;
Palladas,
15;
29
2.
Nicias,
24.
i.
;
x. 3, 14, 17,
:
;
xi. 53.
;
ix.
Ptolemaeus,
xii.
iii.
7
xi. 20, 40.
X. 5
61, 63, 66
Strato, i. 5, 76 ; ix. 3, 7 ; x. i
Moero, ii. 20.
Moschus, iv. 37.
Myrinus, vi. 22.
NiCAENETUS,
viii. 5,
40.
xii.
Satyrus,
xii.
8;
vi. 5,
12;
ix.
42, 47.
Metrodorus,
vii.
;
11, 12, 17, 18
iii.
;
6
ii.
;
15.
xii.
45;
xi. 38.
33;
31, 39
i.
;
Posidippus,
7-
Marianus,
Meleager,
11, 14,
ii.
Phil^jifiemus,
xi.
14.
vii.
;
2;
vii.
40.
22.
iii.
Philetas,
25, 28, 31, 34, 37, 38, 42.
14, 15, 21,
i.
43;
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