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Idem Libertus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Marjorie S. Broughall
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C. gargilius haemon read his own epitaph. He read slowly, sitting on the stairs beside the tablet, moving his lamp from line to line, and watching the words leap into clarity and fade again. It was a beautiful epitaph. Its warm phrases comforted him; its rhythms from the poets sang in his head. There was a whole line of verse to end it. He chanted it softly.

Type
Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 5 , Issue 13 , October 1935 , pp. 22 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1935

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