Mimnermus
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Mimnermus
of
Colophon
was a
Greek
elegiac
poet, who flourished about
630
–
600 BC
.
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We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.
Fragment 1.
Whom the gods love, die young.
Fragment 111
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