When I am dead may earth be mingled with fire. It matters not to me, for with me all is well.See also Renzo Tosi, Dictionnaire des sentences latines et grecques, tr. Rebecca Lenoir (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2010), #1038, pp. 764-765.
ἐμοῦ θανόντος γαῖα μιχθήτω πυρί·
οὐδὲν μέλει μοι· τἀμὰ γὰρ καλῶς ἔχει.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, August 05, 2014
It Matters Not to Me
Greek Anthology 7.704 = Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Vol. 2: Fragmenta Adespota, edd. R. Kannicht and B. Snell (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981; rpt. 2007), #513, p. 145 (tr. W.R. Paton):