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Epigrams (3.4-4.2)

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while rivers run and the sea breaks on the shore,
ever remaining on this mournful tomb,
I tell the passer-by that Midas here lies buried.
To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey
even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mothers knees!
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