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7 Quotes for 'Callimachus' in the Database.
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Callimachus Quotes
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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.
Topic: Gods
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.
Topic: Gods
Source: Epigram (V), (Swift's rendering)
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A good man never dies.
Topic: Immortality
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.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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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."
Topic: Mortality
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.
Topic: Mortality
Source: translated by Macnail in "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology", also see Callimachus, "Epigrams
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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.
Topic: Nostalgia
Source: None
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