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These are fragments of the epigrams of Callimachus of Cyrene, the Hellenistic poet and scholar of third-century BC Alexandria. Some sixty of his epigrams survive complete, mainly in the Greek Anthology; the pieces here are lines and phrases from others, known only through quotation by later writers. One refers to Momus, god of fault-finding, writing "Cronus is wise" on walls, another to crows croaking on rooftops.
Callimachus was among the finest writers of the short epigram, and his concise, witty verse shaped the genre for centuries. These scraps add to the known range of his epigrams and show how much Hellenistic poetry reaches us only through the citations of grammarians and scholiasts.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Pfeiffer frr. 393, 395, 401). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).