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Chapman, George, trans. (1559?–1634). The Odysseys of Homer, vol. 1. 1857.
CERTAIN ANCIENT GREEK EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED.
- ALL stars are drunk up by the fiery sun,
- And in so much a flame lies shrunk the moon.
- HOMER’S all-lived name all names leaves in death,
- Whose splendour only Muses’ bosoms breathe.
ANOTHER.
- Heaven’s fire shall first fall darken’d from his sphere,
- Grave Night the light weed of the Day shall wear,
- Fresh streams shall chase the sea, tough ploughs shall tear
- Her fishy bottoms, men in long date dead
- Shall rise and live, before Oblivion shed
- Those still-green leaves that crown great HOMER’S head.
ANOTHER.
- The great Maeonides doth only write,
- And to him dictates the great God of Light.
ANOTHER.
- Seven kingdoms strove in which should swell the womb
- That bore great HOMER, whom Fame freed from tomb;
- Argos, Chios, Pylos, Smyrna, Colophone,
- The learn’d Athenian, and Ulyssean throne.
ANOTHER.
- Art thou of Chios? No. Of Salamine?
- As little. Was the Smyrnean country thine?
- Nor so. Which then? Was Cuma’s? Colophone?
- Nor one nor other. Art thou, then, of none
- That Fame proclaims thee? None. Thy reason call,
- If I confess of one I anger all.