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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Misanthrope

By Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.)

SAY, honest Timon, now escaped from light,

Which do you most abhor, or that or night?

“Man, I most hate the gloomy shades below,

And that because in them are more of you.”