Callimachus Quotes

• To little men, gods send little things.

  Callimachus

  Men, Littles, Little Things

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• Nothing unattested do I sing.

  Callimachus

  "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature", edited by P. E. Easterling. Vol 1, part 4, p. 30, Fragment 465, 1989.

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• Set a thief to catch a thief.

  Callimachus

  Thieves, Crime

  Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, Theognis, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.207, London : H.G. Bohn

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• A good man never dies.

  Callimachus

  Men, Good Man, Dies

  Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, Theognis, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.421, London : H.G. Bohn

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• I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

  Callimachus

  Tired, Talking, Sky

  Callimachus, “Heraclitus”

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• A great book is like great evil.

  Callimachus

  Book, Evil, Great Book

  Fragment 465

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• More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

  Callimachus

  Grief, Men, Sorrow

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• O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.

  Callimachus

  Lying, Darkness, World

  "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology". Book by John William Mackail, p. 171, Epigram 14, 1906.

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• Big book, a big bore.

  Callimachus

  Book, Boredom, Bigs

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• Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.

  Callimachus

  Friendship, Dust, Long

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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.

  Callimachus

  Sweet, Two, Shining

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• I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

  Callimachus

  Roaming, Lovers, Common

  Epigram 28 in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)

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• A big book is a big misfortune.

  Callimachus

  Book, Big Book, Bigs

  Fragment 465; translation by A. W. Bulloch, in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox (eds.) "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature" (1989) vol. 1, part 4, p. 30,

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• You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
  Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
  Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

  Callimachus

  Laughter, Writing, Wine

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• And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

  Callimachus

  Art, Lying, Long Ago

  Callimachus, “Heraclitus”

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• Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.

  Callimachus

  Sleep, Son, Holy

  Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.194, London : H.G. Bohn

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