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I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.   Callimachus

Excerpt from Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn · This quote is about nostalgia · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Callimachus (ca. 305 BC - ca. 240 BC) was a native of Cyrene and a descendant of Battiadae. He was a noted poet, critic, and scholar of the Library of Alexandria, and enjoyed the patronage of Ptolemy II; although he was never made chief librarian, he was responsible for producing the catalogue of all the volumes contained in the Library. His Pinakes (tablets), 120 volumes long, provided the complete and chronologically arranged catalogue of the Library, laying the foundation for later work on the history of Greek literature. As one of the earliest critic-poets, he typifies Hellenistic scholarship.

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