'And he shall come to the dark plain of the departed and shall seek the
ancient seer of the dead, who knows the mating of men and women. He shall pour
in a trench warm blood for the souls, and, brandishing before him his sword to
terrify the dead, he shall there hear the thin voice of the ghosts, uttered
from shadowy lips.'
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from ALEXANDRA, in
Callimachus,
Hymns and Epigrams. Lycophron. Aratus. Translated by Mair, A. W. & G. R.
Loeb Classical Library Volume 129. London: William Heinemann, 1921.
LYCOPHRON of Chalcis was a Greek poet and scholar of
the Library of Alexandria who flourished in the C3rd BC. His cryptic poem, the
Alexandra, tells the stories of the heroes of the Trojan War in the riddling,
prophetic words of the Trojan princess Cassandra.
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