...were yesterday when we sat and read together : — They told me, Heracleitus, they told me tlion wert dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. The volume of verse, the lirst which he published, given to me with his own hand, lies before me now....

...same bird which they listened to. We have it in the epitaph of Callimachus, in Cory's translation : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed ; I wept when I remembered how often yon and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And...

...the accusative of the object. 192- This is translated in * Ionica' : — " They told me, Heraclitas, they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter...with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou.art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are...

...Cory's imitation of the elegiacs of Callimachus on his friend Heracleitus: They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead,— They brought me bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. TURNING from Semitic literature to the Aryan And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian in its...

...given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover. HERACLITUS BY WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. Potatoes dug...

...is William Johnson's translation of the famous epigram of Callimachus : They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake ; For Death,...

...point, and we make no excuse for quoting the admirable version of it which appears in " Iónica " : — They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. But now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,...

...hearing the news that the poet Heraclitus — not to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. dnd now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, e/f handful of grey ashes, long long ago at...

...to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you mere dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still...

...imitation of the elegiacs of Callimachus on his friend Heracleitus : — " They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead, — They brought me bitter...art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake, For Death...