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The Hymns of Callimachus, Translated from the Greek into English Verse, With Explanatory Notes

To which are added, Select Epigrams, and the Coma Berenices of the same Author, Six Hymns of Orpheus, and The Encomium of Ptolemy by Theocritus. By William Dodd
Dodd, William (1729-1777)
  
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SELECT EPIGRAMS AND THE COMA BERENICES OF CALLIMACHUS. THE Encomium of Ptolemy by Theocritus, AND Six HYMNS of Orpheus TO JUPITER, JUNO, APOLLO, DIANA, PALLAS, CERES.
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SELECT EPIGRAMS.
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XVII. On Berenice the wife of Ptolemy.
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COMA BERENICES:
  
THE ENCOMIUM of Ptolemy,
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Six HYMNS of Orpheus To JUPITER, JUNO, APOLLO, DIANA, PALLAS, CERES.

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X.

[To Violanta constant love]

To Violanta constant love
Fond Callignotus sighing swore:
He vow'd that none his heart shou'd move,
His heart, that ne'er shou'd vary more.
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He swore indeed: but oaths, they say,
Which languishing young lovers swear,
To heav'n did never make their way,
Cou'd never reach immortal ear!
For now he burns with other fires,
And wretched Violanta scorns,
Who, while new love his heart inspires,
Unnoted quite complains and mourns.
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