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Meleager’s Own Epitaph: Meleager of Gadara (First Century B.C.)
By The Greek Anthology
Translation of John William Mackail
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READ softly, O stranger; for here an old man sleeps among the holy dead, lulled in the slumber due to all; Meleager son of Eucrates, who united Love of the sweet tears and the Muses with the joyous Graces; whom god-begotten Tyre brought to manhood, and the sacred land of Gadara, but lovely Cos nursed in old age among the Meropes. But if thou art a Syrian, say “Salam,” and if a Phœnician, “Naidios,” and if a Greek, “Hail”: they are the same.
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