Callimachus (-310–-240 BC) ancient poet and librarian
Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in Ionica (1858) p. 7
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“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.”
Poem Heraclitus http://www.bartleby.com/101/759.html.
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