<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. — By 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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