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Menippus of Gadara
Greek Anthology 417 - 418
<blockquote>417.— MELEAGER
Island Tyre was my nurse, and Gadara, which is Attic,! but lies in Sja-ia, gave birth to me. From Eucrates I sprung, Meleager, who first by the help of the Muses ran abreast of the Graces of Menippus. If I am a Syrian, what wonder? Stranger, we dwell in one country, the world; one Chaos gave birth to all mortals. In my old age I wrote these lines in my tablets before my burial; for eld and death are near neighbours. Speak a word to wish me, the loquacious old man, well, and maj^st thou reach a loquacious old age thyself
418. — Bv The Same
My first country was famous Gadara; then Tyre
received me and brought me up to manlihood. When
I reached old age, Cos, which nurtured Zeus,i made
me one of her Meropian citizens and cared for my de-
clining years. But the Muses adorned me, Meleager,
son of Eucrates, more than most men with the Graces
of Menippus.
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