{"id":131,"date":"2006-04-18T23:34:53","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T04:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=131"},"modified":"2006-04-19T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T03:03:15","slug":"two-epigrams-on-timon-the-misanthropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Two Epigrams on Timon the Misanthrope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are Callimachus LI and LII in Gow and Page, <em>Hellenistic Epigrams<\/em>, 7.317-318 in the Greek Anthology. The first is a dialogue, with the translation mostly borrowed from Paton&#8217;s Loeb:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"+1\"><span style=\"font-family: Vusillus, Gentium, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS\">&#151; \u03a4\u1f77\u03bc\u03c9\u03bd, \u03bf\u1f50 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u1f14\u03c4\u1fbf \u1f10\u03c3\u03c3\u1f77, \u03c4\u1f77 \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9, \u03c3\u03ba\u1f79\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f22 \u03c6\u1f71\u03bf\u03c2, \u1f10\u03c7\u03b8\u03c1\u1f79\u03bd;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#151; \u03a4\u1f78 \u03c3\u03ba\u1f79\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2\u0387  \u1f51\u03bc\u1f73\u03c9\u03bd \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b5\u1f77\u03bf\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b5\u1f30\u03bd \u1f08\u1fd3\u03b4\u1fc3.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">Q.  Timon, since you are no more, which is more hateful to you, darkness or light?<br \/>\nA.  Darkness:  for there are more of you in Hades.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The second is a bit confusing, and depends on a pun. Here is my best guess at a translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"+1\"><span style=\"font-family: Vusillus, Gentium, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS\">\u039c\u1f74 \u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd \u03b5\u1f34\u03c0\u1fc3\u03c2 \u03bc\u03b5, \u03ba\u03b1\u03ba\u1f78\u03bd \u03ba\u1f73\u03b1\u03c1, \u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u1f70 \u03c0\u1f71\u03c1\u03b5\u03bb\u03b8\u03b5\u0387<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u1f36\u03c3\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03bc\u03bf\u1f76 \u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f78 \u03bc\u1f74 \u03c3\u1f72 \u03c0\u03b5\u03bb\u1fb6\u03bd.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">Do not greet (= bless) me, evil heart, but pass by;   your not coming near is as good as a blessing.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are Callimachus LI and LII in Gow and Page, Hellenistic Epigrams, 7.317-318 in the Greek Anthology. The first is a dialogue, with the translation mostly borrowed from Paton&#8217;s Loeb: &#151; \u03a4\u1f77\u03bc\u03c9\u03bd, \u03bf\u1f50 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u1f14\u03c4\u1fbf \u1f10\u03c3\u03c3\u1f77, \u03c4\u1f77 \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9, \u03c3\u03ba\u1f79\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f22 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epigrams","category-ephemerides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}