by Coleridge · Cluster: Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Abstract
A two-line English rendering of a Greek epigram about a man who hangs himself with a rope left by one who found lost gold; a jeu d’esprit on translation, brevity, and money.
Connections
Motifs: Money and Gold, Death Forms & Genres: Epigram Historical References: Classical Antiquity
Testo integrale / Full text
ÇÁÅÃx½ ½tÁ µQÁ|½ »¹Àµ ²ÁyÇ¿½, ±PÄpÁ A ÇÁÅÃx½
E½ »wÀµ½ ¿PÇ µQÁ|½ ‘ȵ½ E½ µWÁµ ²ÁyÇ¿½.
Jack finding gold left a rope on the ground:
Bill missing his gold used the rope which he found.
First published in Omniana, 1812, ii. 123. First collected in P. and
D. W. 1877, ii. 374.