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.
- Have[*](The Epigrams are preserved in the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer. Nos. III, XIII, and XVII are also found in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, and No. I is also extant at the end of some MSS. of the Homeric Hymns.) reverence for him who needs a home and stranger’s dole,
- all ye who dwell in the high city of Cyme, the lovely maiden,
- hard by the foothills of lofty Sardene,
- ye who drink the heavenly water of the divine stream,
- eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot.
- Speedily may my feet bear me to some town of righteous men;
- for their hearts are generous and their wit is best.
- I am a maiden of bronze and am set upon the tomb of Midas.
- While the waters flow and tall trees flourish,
- and the sun rises and shines and the bright moon also;
- while rivers run and the sea breaks on the shore,
- ever remaining on this mournful tomb,