Musaeus Grammaticus

thumb|And now she took in Love's sweet-bitter sting. Musaeus Grammaticus (Ancient Greek: Μουσαῖος; fl. c. early 6th century AD) was a Geek poet and grammarian of late antiquity. Quotes Hero and Leander Εἰπέ, θεά, κρυφίων ἐπιμάρτυρα λύχνον ἐρώτωνκαὶ νύχιον πλωτῆρα θαλασσοπόρων ὑμεναίωνκαὶ γάμον ἀχλυόεντα, τὸν οὐκ ἴδεν ἄφθιτος Ἠώς,καὶ Σηστὸν καὶ Ἄβυδον, ὅπῃ γάμον ἔννυχον Ἡροῦς. L. 1 Goddess, relate the witness-bearing lightOf Loves, that would not bear a human sight;The Sea-man that transported marriages,Shipt in the night, his bosom plowing th' seas;The love-joys that in gloomy clouds did fly,The clear beams of th' immortal Morning's eye;Abydos and fair Sestus, where I hearThe night-hid nuptials of fair Hero were. Tr. George Chapman (1616) Sing, Muse, the conscious torch, whose nightly flame,(The shining signal of a brighter dame,Thro' trackless waves the bold Leander led,To taste the dang'rous joys of Hero's bed:Sing the stol'n bliss in gloomy shades conceal'd,And never to the blushing morn reveal'd. Tr. Laurence Eusden (1750) Queen of the plaintive voice, the Torch resoundWitness of secret Loves, the Lover singOn midnight billows borne to rapt'rous joys,Veil'd from Aurora's eye; the realms relate,By Ocean sever'd, join'd by Love. Tr. Edward Burnaby Greene (1773) Κάλλος γὰρ περίπυστον ἀμωμήτοιο γυναικὸςὀξύτερον μερόπεσσι πέλει πτερόεντος ὀιστοῦ·ὀφθαλμὸς δ᾿ ὁδός ἐστιν. L. 92 The virtuous beauty of a spotless dameSharper to men is than the swiftest shaft;His eye the way by which his heart is caught. Tr. Chapman (1616) Lovely the Virgin-frame, but lovelier farHer native innocence, whose dart is wing'dWith force resistless, through the roving eyeIt strikes into the heart. Tr. Greene (1773) Παρθενικῆς δὲπειθομένης ποτὶ λέκτρον ὑπόσχεσίς ἐστι σιωπή. L. 164 Of a persuaded virgin, to her bedPromise is most given when the least is said. Tr. Chapman (1616) A yielding maid by ev'ry sign was meant;For dumb denying is a sure consent. Tr. Eusden (1750) Ἤδη καὶ γλυκύπικρον ἐδέξατο κέντρον Ἐρώτων. L. 166 And now she took in Love's sweet-bitter sting. Tr. Chapman (1616) See also Christopher Marlowe External links C. A. Trypanis, Thomas Gelzer and Cedric Whitman (eds.) Callimachus: Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments · Musaeus: Hero and Leander, LCL 421 (1973) — Greek text used above Category:Poets from Greece