{"id":135,"date":"2006-04-20T23:06:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-04-20T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T04:08:24","slug":"two-anonymous-epigrams-on-timon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Two Anonymous Epigrams on Timon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This hexameter couplet purports to be the inscription on Timon&#8217;s tomb.  It is <em>A.P.<\/em> 7.313, with the author given as &#145;anonymous&#146;, though Plutarch, in his life of Mark Antony (&sect; 70), says that Timon wrote it himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"+1\"><span style=\"font-family: Vusillus, Gentium, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS\">\u1f18\u03bd\u03b8\u03b1\u03b4\u1fbf \u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03c1\u1f75\u03be\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u1f74\u03bd \u03b2\u03b1\u03c1\u03c5\u03b4\u03b1\u1f77\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9\u0387<br \/>\n\u03c4\u03bf\u1f54\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b4\u1fbf \u03bf\u1f50 \u03c0\u03b5\u1f7b\u03c3\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5, \u03ba\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u1f76 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03ba\u03b1\u03ba\u1ff6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03c0\u1f79\u03bb\u03bf\u03b9\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">Here I lie, having broken away from my luckless soul.  My name you will not learn, but may you come, bad men, to a bad end.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Like the preceding, <em>A.P.<\/em> 7.319 is anonymous, and neither is included in any of Gow and Page&#8217;s collections:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"+1\"><span style=\"font-family: Vusillus, Gentium, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS\">\u039a\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bd\u1f73\u03ba\u03c5\u03c2 \u1f62\u03bd \u03a4\u1f77\u03bc\u03c9\u03bd \u1f04\u03b3\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2\u0387  \u03c3\u1f7a \u03b4\u1f73 \u03b3\u1fbf, \u1f66 \u03c0\u03c5\u03bb\u03b1\u03c9\u03c1\u1f72<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u03a0\u03bb\u03bf\u1f7b\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2, \u03c4\u1f71\u03c1\u03b2\u03b5\u03b9, \u039a\u1f73\u03c1\u03b2\u03b5\u03c1\u03b5, \u03bc\u1f75 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03b4\u1f71\u03ba\u1fc3.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">Even as a corpse Timon is savage:  Cerberus, door-keeper of Pluto, be afraid lest he bite you.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hexameter couplet purports to be the inscription on Timon&#8217;s tomb. It is A.P. 7.313, with the author given as &#145;anonymous&#146;, though Plutarch, in his life of Mark Antony (&sect; 70), says that Timon wrote it himself. \u1f18\u03bd\u03b8\u03b1\u03b4\u1fbf \u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03c1\u1f75\u03be\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u1f74\u03bd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=135\">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-135","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\/135","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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}