• They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

  Source: Epigrams Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in

  Callimachus
  Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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1. heraclitus
2. remembered
3. talking
4. tears
5. often
6. tired

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They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. by : Callimachus

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