Homer’s Epigrams

Homer

Homer. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard), editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.

  1. while rivers run and the sea breaks on the shore,
  2. ever remaining on this mournful tomb,
  3. I tell the passer-by that Midas here lies buried.
  1. To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey
  2. even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mother’s knees!