"Set a thief to catch a thief."
— Callimachus
January 1, 1970
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Epigram 43; translation by Robert Allason Furness, from Poems of Callimachus (1931), p. 103
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Epigram 43; translation by Robert Allason Furness, from Poems of Callimachus (1931), p. 103