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 Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2.  Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2. 
  
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 Foster-sister of the Graces And of Cypris throned above, Holy Reconciliation, So much fairer than we knew, O that somehow as they paint him, With a wreath of roses, Love, Love might take our hands and join us, You to me and me to you! Foster-sister of the Graces And of Cypris throned above, Holy Reconciliation, So much fairer than we knew, O that somehow as they paint him, With a wreath of roses, Love, Love might take our hands and join us, You to me and me to you!
  
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-“Hear now another painter, in your opinion doubtless a braggart, but, according to those who know, a perfectly sensible man; and what says he?+Hear now another painter, in your opinion doubtless a braggart, but, according to those who know, a perfectly sensible man; and what says he?
  
-Heraclea my birthplace, Zeuxis my name; and if any man say he holds the ends of my art,1 let him prove it ere he be believed ...2 To my thinking, I hold no second place.+//Heraclea my birthplace, Zeuxis my name; and if any man say he holds the ends of my art,1 let him prove it ere he be believed ...2 To my thinking, I hold no second place.//
  
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 Addition: “He painted ... an athlete, and was so proud of his work that he wrote beneath it the line which has since become famous: Addition: “He painted ... an athlete, and was so proud of his work that he wrote beneath it the line which has since become famous:
  
-Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. more literally It is easier to find fault than to imitate （i.e. it is easier to say a thing's ill done than to do it as well）; or more particularly This will be found fault with rather than imitated; cf. Theogn. 369+//Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. more literally It is easier to find fault than to imitate （i.e. it is easier to say a thing's ill done than to do it as well）; or more particularly This will be found fault with rather than imitated; cf. Theogn. 369//
  
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 1 i.e. has control of, is master of, such an art as mine: cf. Theogn. 140, Mimn. 2. 6 n, Archil. 55 1 i.e. has control of, is master of, such an art as mine: cf. Theogn. 140, Mimn. 2. 6 n, Archil. 55
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