Frasi di Callimaco

Callimaco è stato un poeta e filologo greco antico d'età ellenistica.

✵ 310 a.C. – 240 a.C.
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Callimaco frasi celebri

“Dorme un sonno sacro; non dire che i buoni muoiono.”

Callimaco

Epigrammi, VII Epitafio di Saone

“Grande libro, grande malanno!”

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Callimaco: Frasi in inglese

“The most outstanding intellect of this generation, the greatest poet that the Hellenistic age produced, and historically one of the most important figures in the development of Graeco-Roman (and hence European) literature.”

Callimachus

A. W. Bulloch, in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature (1989), edited by P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox, vol. 1, part 4, p. 9
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“Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
The Muses are ten, 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

Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited from Anthologia Polyglotta (1849), edited by Henry Wellesley, p. 47
Epigrams

“Nothing unattested do I sing.”

Callimachus

Fragment 612; translation by A. W. Bulloch, in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox, in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature (1989) vol. 1, part 4, p. 30

“Set a thief to catch a thief.”

Callimachus

Epigram 43; translation by Robert Allason Furness, from Poems of Callimachus (1931), p. 103
Epigrams

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

Callimachus

Epigram 14; translation from Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1906), edited by J. W. Mackail, p. 171
Epigrams

“A big book is a big misfortune.”

Callimachus

Fragment 465; translation by A. W. Bulloch, in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox, in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature (1989) vol. 1, part 4, p. 30
Variant translation: A great book is like great evil.

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

Callimachus

Epigram 10; translation from The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (1856), edited by J. Banks , p. 194
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