On the Greatness of Homer

Anthologia Palatina 9.24 = Leonidas of Tarentum (320-260 BCE)

The fiery sun, whirling its axis,
Dulls the stars and the moon’s holy circles;
Just so Homer has plunged into night
All the songsmiths in a mass,
Holding high the Muses’ brightest light.

ἄστρα μὲν ἠμαύρωσε καὶ ἱερὰ κύκλα σελήνης
ἄξονα δινήσας ἔμπυρος ἠέλιος:
ὑμνοπόλους δ᾽ ἀγεληδὸν ἀπημάλδυνεν Ὅμηρος,
λαμπρότατον Μουσῶν φέγγος ἀνασχόμενος.

Homer, Girolamo Troppa, between 1665 and 1668

Death of a Bird-Catcher

Anthologia Palatina 7.171 = Mnasalces of Sicyon (3rd cent. BCE)

Here, too, the sacred bird will rest his swift wing,
Perched atop this sweet plane-tree:
For Poemandrus the Melian has died – he comes no longer
After smearing his fowling-twigs with bird-lime.

Ἀμπαύσει καὶ τῇδε θοὸν πτερὸν ἱερὸς ὄρνις,
τᾶσδ᾽ ὑπὲρ ἁδείας ἑζόμενος πλατάνου:
ὤλετο γὰρ Ποίμανδρος ὁ Μάλιος, οὐδ᾽ ἔτι νεῖται
ἰξὸν ἐπ᾽ ἀγρευταῖς χευάμενος καλάμοις.

The Bird-Catchers, François Boucher, 1748

On March 30, 2017, Gong Yoo attended an opening event of Epigram’s pop-up store in Yongsang-gu, Itaewon. For the event, he wore a pink EPIGRAM sweater (₩139,000) paired with pink pants and Converse sneakers. Images: Sports Chosun

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Martial,Epigrams5.9

I was feeling ill; but you came to me
Forthwith, with a hundred students at your heels.
A hundred hands made cold by the North Wind touched me;
I didn’t have a fever, Symmachus, but I do now!

Languebam: sed tu comitatus protinus ad me
     uenisti centum, Symmache, discipulis.
Centum me tetigere manus aquilone gelatae:
     non habui febrem, Symmache, nunc habeo.

The Sick Woman (A Doctor and His Patient), Jan Steen, ca. 1663-66

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