{"id":141,"date":"2006-04-30T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=141"},"modified":"2006-04-30T08:35:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T13:35:24","slug":"the-last-of-timons-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Timon&#8217;s Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book VII of the Greek Anthology includes a sequence of eight supposed epitaphs of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, epigrams 313-320. Having already posted seven of them, here is the eighth, by &#147;Zenodotus or Rhianus&#148; (<em>A.P.<\/em> 7.315), with W. R. Paton&#8217;s Loeb translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"+1\"><span style=\"font-family: Vusillus, Gentium, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS\">\u03a4\u03c1\u03b7\u03c7\u03b5\u1fd6\u03b1\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u1fbf \u1f10\u03bc\u03b5\u1fe6, \u03c8\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1\u03c1\u1f74 \u03ba\u1f79\u03bd\u03b9, \u1fe5\u1f71\u03bc\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd \u1f11\u03bb\u1f77\u03c3\u03c3\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u03c0\u1f71\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd, \u1f22 \u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f04\u03b3\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1 \u03ba\u1ff6\u03bb\u03b1 \u03b2\u1f71\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5,<br \/>\n\u1f61\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c0\u1fbf \u1f10\u03bc\u03bf\u1f76 \u03bc\u03b7\u03b4\u1fbf \u1f44\u03c1\u03bd\u03b9\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd \u03b5\u1f34\u03b1\u03c1\u03b9 \u03ba\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c6\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03c1\u03b5\u1f77\u03b4\u03bf\u03b9<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u1f34\u03c7\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2, \u1f10\u03b7\u03b5\u03bc\u1f71\u03b6\u03c9 \u03b4\u1fbf \u1f25\u03c3\u03c5\u03c7\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b5\u03ba\u03bb\u03b9\u03bc\u1f73\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2.<br \/>\n\u1f26 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u1f41 \u03bc\u03b9\u03c3\u1f71\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2, \u1f41 \u03bc\u03b7\u03b4\u1fbf \u1f00\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c3\u03b9 \u03c6\u03b9\u03bb\u1f20\u03b5\u1f76\u03c2<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u03a4\u1f77\u03bc\u03c9\u03bd \u03bf\u1f50\u03b4\u1fbf \u1f08\u1fd3\u03b4\u1fc3 \u03b3\u03bd\u1f75\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b5\u1f30\u03bc\u03b9 \u03bd\u1f73\u03ba\u03c5\u03c2.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">Dry earth, grow a prickly thorn to twine all around me, or the wild branches of a twisting bramble, that not even a bird in spring may rest its light foot on me, but that I may repose in peace and solitude.  For I, the misanthrope, Timon, who was not even beloved by my countrymen, am no genuine dead man even in Hades.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book VII of the Greek Anthology includes a sequence of eight supposed epitaphs of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, epigrams 313-320. Having already posted seven of them, here is the eighth, by &#147;Zenodotus or Rhianus&#148; (A.P. 7.315), with W. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=141\">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-141","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\/141","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=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}