Delphi Ancient Classics Book 84

Delphi Complete Works of Callimachus

Callimachus

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“Big book, big evil,” (μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν) is a famous saying attributed to the poet, often thought to be attacking long, old-fashioned poetry.
The idle singer of an empty day, lifeless and “wooden” and uninspired
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But who would draw lots for Olympos and for Hades – save a very fool?
Discoveries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of ancient Egyptian papyruses confirm the fame of Callimachus. No other Greek poet except Homer was so often quoted by the grammarians of late antiquity. He was taken as a model by many Roman poets, notably Catullus and Propertius, and by the most accomplished Greek poets.
O burden mine, whither shall I carry thee? The hapless sinews of my feet are outworn.
But my life is more at home among the waves than is the sea-gull.
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