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The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er. 'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she Away the Graces would no Graces be. - Epigram (V), (Goldwin Smith's rendering) [Gods] Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace. - Epigram (V), (Swift's rendering) [Gods] A good man never dies. - Epigrams (X) [Immortality] "O Charidas, what of the under world?" "Great darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" "A lie." "And Pluto?" "A fable; we perish utterly." - On Charidas of Cyrene, translated by J.W. Mackail in "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology", also see Callimachus, "Epigrams", XIV, l. 3 [Mortality]
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