{"id":178,"date":"2007-03-01T23:35:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T04:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=178"},"modified":"2016-10-15T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T00:36:26","slug":"worthy-of-the-greek-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Worthy of the Greek Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . and probably influenced by it. This scoptic epitaph is entitled &#8220;De Erastenes, Medico&#8221; in the cheap paperback edition in which I found it (<em>Rimas de Lope de Vega<\/em>, ed. Gerardo Diego, Madrid, 1979), &#8220;De Er&aacute;sthenes Medico&#8221; (with an H) on the Virtual Cervantes site. I wonder if the name should be Eratost(h)enes. Either way, the title requires no gloss. Here is the text, with a rough translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ense\u00f1\u00e9, no me escucharon;<br \/>\nescrib\u00ed, no me leyeron;<br \/>\ncur\u00e9 mal, no me entendieron;<br \/>\nmat\u00e9, no me castigaron;<\/p>\n<p>Ya con morir satisfice;<br \/>\noh muerte, quiero quejarme,<br \/>\nbien pudieras perdonarme<br \/>\npor servicios que te hice.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">I lectured, they did not listen to me;<br \/>\nI wrote, they did not read me;<br \/>\nI ministered badly, they did not understand;<br \/>\nI killed, they did not punish me;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">Now, by dying, I have paid in full.<br \/>\nDeath, I wish to lodge a complaint:<br \/>\nyou might well have pardoned me<br \/>\nfor my services to you.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose I should leaf through Book XI of the Anthology to see whether this is modeled on some particular epigram or just written in the same spirit as quite a few of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . and probably influenced by it. This scoptic epitaph is entitled &#8220;De Erastenes, Medico&#8221; in the cheap paperback edition in which I found it (Rimas de Lope de Vega, ed. Gerardo Diego, Madrid, 1979), &#8220;De Er&aacute;sthenes Medico&#8221; (with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=178\">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":[41,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek-epigram","category-nachleben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}