The Lucian of Samosata Project

This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong.

====== Menippus of Gadara | Greek Anthology 417 - 418 ======


<blockquote>417.— MELEAGER \\

Island Tyre was my nurse, and Gadara, which 
is Attic but lies in Sjaia, 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 mast 
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 declining years. But the Muses adorned me, Meleager, 
son of Eucrates, more than most men with the Graces 
of **Menippus**. \\
[[http://archive.org/stream/greekanthology02newyuoft/greekanthology02newyuoft_djvu.txt|Source]]</blockquote>