Venice masks

Monday 10 July 2017

I hate the cyclic poem - Callimachus

I hate the cyclic poem and I don’t enjoy
The road that goes too far this way and that.
I despise as well the loved one who wanders—I
Don’t drink from just any stream: I loathe all common things.
Yes, Lysanius, you are fine—but before I say that clearly
Some Echo says “he belongs to another”.

Callimachus (c. 310 - 240 BC) Egypt (born in Libya)
Translated by Sententi Aeantiquae
Source: Sententi Aeantiquae

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