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The season of ships is here,
The west wind and the swallows;
Flowers in the fields appear,
And the ocean of hills and hollows Has calmed its waves and is clear.
Free that anchor and chain!
Set your full canvas flying,
O men in the harbor lane:
It is I, Priapus, crying.
Sail out on your trades again!

Leonidas of Tarentum

Far from Italy, far from my native Tarentum I lie; and this is the worst of it—worse than death. An exile's life is no life. But the Muses loved me. For my suffering they gave me a honeyed gift: My name survives me. Thanks to the sweet Muses Leonidas will echo throughout all time.

Leonidas of Tarentum

Leonidas of Tarentum

Leonidas of Tarentum

Born: 320 BC

Died: 260 BC (aged 60)

Bio: Leonidas of Tarentum was an epigrammatist and lyric poet. He lived in Italy in the third century B.C. at Tarentum, on the coast of Calabria. Over a hundred of his epigrams are present in the Greek Anthology compiled in the 10th and 14th centuries.

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