User:Davidiad/Iambi (Callimachus)

The Iambi is a collection of poems in the iambus genre by the third century BCE poet Callimachus.

The collection

P.Oxy. XI 1363: Callimachus, Iambi 1.1–30 (fr. 191 Pf.)

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Iamb one

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Ἀκούσαθ' Ἱππώνακτος· ⌊ο⌋ὐ γὰρ ἀλλ' ἥκω ἐκ τῶν ὅκου βοῦν κολλύ⌊βου π⌋ιπρήσκουσιν, φέρων ἴαμβον οὐ μάχην ⌊ἀείδ⌋οντα τὴν Βο⌋υπ⌊άλ⌋ειον [.].νά[... ἄ]νθρωπος	Listen to Hipponax! That's right: I'm back from where they sell an ox for a penny, bearing iambus that sings not of the old battle with Bupalus [lacuna] man