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Callimachus
19 quotes
“ψευδοίμην· ἀίοντος ἅ κεν πεπίθοιεν ἀκουήν.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I.65 (tr. A. W. Mair, 1921)
“ὁ Φθόνος Ἀπόλλωνος ἐπ᾿ οὔατα λάθριος εἶπεν· 'οὐκ ἄγαμαι τὸν ἀοιδὸν ὃς οὐδ᾿ ὅσα πόντος ἀείδει.' τὸν Φθόνον ὡπόλλων ποδί τ᾿ ἤλασεν ὧδέ τ᾿ ἔειπεν· 'Ἀσσυρίου ποταμοῖο μέγας ῥόος, ἀλλὰ τὰ πολλά λύματα γῆς καὶ πολλὸν ἐφ᾿ ὕδατι συρφετὸν ἕλκει. Δηοῖ δ᾿ οὐκ ἀπὸ παντὸς ὕδωρ φορέουσι μέλισσαι, ἀλλ᾿ ἥτις καθαρή τε καὶ ἀχράαντος ἀνέρπει πίδακος ἐξ ἱερῆς ὀλίγη λιβὰς ἄκρον ἄωτον.'”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: II.105–112 (tr. A. W. Mair, 1921)
“Εἶπέ τις, Ἡράκλειτε, τεὸν μόρον, ἐς δέ με δάκρυ ἤγαγεν· ἐμνήσθην δ᾿ ὁσσάκις ἀμφότεροι ἥλιον ἐν λέσχῃ κατεδύσαμεν. ἀλλὰ σὺ μέν που, ξεῖν᾿ Ἁλικαρνησεῦ, τετράπαλαι σποδιή, αἱ δὲ τεαὶ ζώουσιν ἀηδόνες, ᾗσιν ὁ πάντων ἁρπακτὴς Ἀΐδης οὐκ ἐπὶ χεῖρα βαλεῖ.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram 2 (tr. W. J. Cory, 1858)
“Τῇδε Σάων ὁ Δίκωνος Ἀκάνθιος ἱερὸν ὕπνον κοιμᾶται· θνῄσκειν μὴ λέγε τοὺς ἀγαθούς.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram 9 (tr. J. Banks, 1856)
“ὦ Χαρίδα, τί τὰ νέρθε; 'πολὺ σκότος.' αἱ δ᾿ ἄνοδοι τί; 'ψεῦδος.' ὁ δὲ Πλούτων; 'μῦθος.' ἀπωλόμεθα.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram 13.3–4 (tr. J. W. Mackail, 1906)
“ὤμοσεν· ἀλλὰ λέγουσιν ἀληθέα τοὺς ἐν ἔρωτι ὅρκους μὴ δύνειν οὔατ᾿ ἐς ἀθανάτων.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram 25.3–4 (tr. A. W. Mair, 1921)
“φωρὸς δ᾿ ἴχνια φὼρ ἔμαθον.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram 43.6 (tr. R. A. Furness, G. M. Young, 1931)
“πολλάκι λήθει τοῖχον ὑποτρώγων ἡσύχιος ποταμός.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram 44.3–4 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1902)
“ἦ πανακὲς πάντων φάρμακον ἁ σοφία.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram 46.4 (tr. A. W. Mair, 1921)
“Τέσσαρες αἱ Χάριτες· ποτὶ γὰρ μία ταῖς τρισὶ τήναις ἄρτι ποτεπλάσθη κἦτι μύροισι νοτεῖ. εὐαίων ἐν πᾶσιν ἀρίζηλος Βερενίκα, ἇς ἄτερ ουδ᾿ αὐταὶ ταὶ Χάριτες Χάριτες.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram 51 (tr. G. Smith, 1849)
“ὅσσα τ᾿ ὀδόντων ἔνδοθι νείαιράν τ᾿ εἰς ἀχάριστον ἔδυ, καὶ τῶν οὐδὲν ἔμεινεν ἐς αὔριον· ὅσσα δ᾿ ἀκουαῖς εἰσεθέμην, ἔτι μοι μοῦνα πάρεστι τάδε.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 43.14–17; Aetia, book II (tr. C. A. Trypanis, 1958)
“ἦ πολυιδρείη χαλεπὸν κακόν, ὅστις ἀκαρτεῖ γλώσσης· ὡς ἐτεὸν παῖς ὅδε μαῦλιν ἔχει.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 75.8–9; Aetia, book III (tr. C. A. Trypanis, 1958)
“Καλλίμαχος ὁ γραμματικὸς τὸ μέγα βιβλίον ἴσον ἔλεγεν εἶναι τῷ μεγάλῳ κακῷ.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 465 (tr. S. Douglas Olson, 2007)
“αἰεὶ τοῖς μικκοῖς μικκὰ δίδουσι θεοί.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 475 (tr. C. A. Trypanis, 1958)
“τεθναίην ὅτ᾿ ἐκεῖνον ἀποπνεύσαντα πυθοίμην.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 591 (= Hecale, fr. 161 Hollis; tr. D. L. Clayman, 2022)
“ἀμάρτυρον οὐδὲν ἀείδω.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 612 (tr. A. W. Bulloch, 1985)
“ἄγνωτον μηδὲν ἔχοιμι καλόν.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 620 (tr. C. A. Trypanis, 1958)
“τί δάκρυον εὗδον ἐγείρεις;”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 682 (= Hecale, fr. 158 Hollis; tr. D. L. Clayman, 2022)
“κουφοτέρως τότε φῶτα διαθλίβουσιν ἀνῖαι, ἐκ δὲ τριηκόντων μοῖραν ἀφεῖλε μίαν, ἢ φίλον ἢ ὅτ᾿ ἐς ἄνδρα συνέμπορον ἢ ὅτε κωφαῖς ἄλγεα μαψαύραις ἔσχατον ἐξερύγῃ.”
Callimachus (306–240 BC) said by 240 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 714 (tr. C. A. Trypanis, 1958)