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EPIGRAMS.
XVI. XVII.

full, and do thou, fire, ever approach the kneading-trough, that there may be a barley cake, of goodly appearance,[1] mixed with sesame. But the wife of your son shall be carried in a chariot, and stamping-footed mules shall lead her to this dwelling. But may she herself, seated on amber, weave a web. I will return, I will return every year, like a swallow. I stand at the vestibule, †and if thou wilt give aught; but if not, I will not stand still, for we have not come to live here.†[2]

XVI. TO FISHERMEN.

For from the blood of such fathers are ye descended [as are] neither rich in lands, nor feeding countless flocks.

XVII. MARGITES.[3]

Many things he knew, but ill he knew them all.

Him the gods had made neither a digger nor a ploughman, nor otherwise wise in aught; but he failed in every art.

THE END.

JOHN CHILDS AND SON, BUNGAY.

  1. See Hermann's notes.
  2. This epigram is so hopelessly corrupt, that I can only refer the reader to the notes of Barnes and Hermann.
  3. See Coleridge, p. 276, sq.