I Brotachus of Gortyna, a Cretan, lie here, not having come hither for this, but for traffic.
LXIII ON SAON OF ACANTHUS CALLIMACHUS
Here Saon, son of Dicon of Acanthus, rests in a holy sleep; say not that the good die.
CHAPTER IV
LITERATURE AND ART
I THE GROVE OF THE MUSES AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Say thou that this grave is consecrate to the Muses, pointing to the books by the plane-trees, and that we guard it; and if a true lover of ours come hither, we crown him with our ivy.
II THE VOICE OF THE WORLD ANTIPATER OF SIDON
The herald of the prowess of heroes and the interpreter of the immortals, a second sun on the life of Greece, Homer, the light of the Muses, the ageless mouth of all the world, lies hid, O stranger, under the sea-washed sand.