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