Epigram 9.545

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With a copy of Callimachus' Hecale

Codex Palatinus 23, p.449

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Καλλιμάχου τὸ τορευτὸν ἔπος τόδε: δὴ γὰρ ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ
ὡνὴρ τοὺς Μουσέων πάντας ἔσεισε κάλους.
ἀείδει δ᾽ Ἑκάλης τε φιλοξείνοιο καλιὴν
καὶ Θησεῖ Μαραθὼν οὓς ἐπέθηκε πόνους,

τοῦ σοὶ καὶ νεαρὸν χειρῶν σθένος εἴη ἀρέσθαι,
Μάρκελλε, κλεινοῦ τ᾽ αἶνον ἴσον βιότου.

— Paton edition

This chiselled poem is Callimachus', for in it he
let out every reef of his Muse. He sings the hut of
hospitable Hecale, and all the labours that Marathon
imposed on Theseus. May the young strength of
Theseus' hands be thine, Marcellus,¹ and a life of
equal renown.

— Paton edition

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Paton Edition notes on Description: Hecale was an old woman who entertained Theseus at Marathon when he went to combat the Marathonian bull.

1 The nephew of Augustus, whose early death Virgil bewails.

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