"Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die."
— Callimachus

January 1, 1970

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Epigram 10; translation from The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (1856), edited by J. Banks , p. 194