Book 3
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And he wrote thus upon DionAnth. Pal. vii. 99.: Tears from their birth the lot had been Of Ilium’s daughters and their queen. By thee, O Dion, great deeds done New hopes and larger promise won. Now here thou liest gloriously, How deeply loved, how mourned by me.
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This, they say, was actually inscribed upon his tomb at Syracuse.
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Again, it is said that being enamoured of Alexis and Phaedrus, as before mentioned, he composed the following linesAnth. Pal. vii. 100.: Now, when Alexis is of no account, I have said no more than this. He is fair to see, and everywhere all eyes are turned upon him. Why, my heart, do you show the dogs a bone? And then will you smart for this hereafter? Was it not thus that we lost Phaedrus? He is also credited with a mistress, Archeanassa, upon whom he wrote as followsAnth. Pal. vii. 217.: I have a mistress, fair Archeanassa of Colophon, on whose very wrinkles sits hot love. O hapless ye who met such beauty on its first voyage, what a flame must have been kindled in you!
