| 7 Famous Quotes by Callimachus
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“The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more;
A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.
'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she
Away the Graces would no Graces be.”
Gods Quotes Source: Epigram (V), (Goldwin Smith's rendering)
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“Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;
Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,
She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.”
Gods Quotes Source: Epigram (V), (Swift's rendering)
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“"O Charidas, what of the underworld?"
"Great darkness."
"And what of the resurrection?"
"A lie."
"And Pluto?"
"A fable; we perish utterly."”
Mortality Quotes Source: translated by Macnail in "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology", also see Callimachus, "Epigrams
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“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a
brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses
it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that
one exists for other people.”
Mortality Quotes Source: translated by Macnail in "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology", also see Callimachus, "Epigrams
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“A good man never dies.”
Immortality Quotes Source: Epigrams (X)
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“I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.”
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“I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.”
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Callimachus Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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