Versos English Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Madman And The Lethargist

English poem

The Madman And The Lethargist

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+Koinê par klisiê lêthargikos êde phrenoplêx keimenoi, allêlôn nouson apeskedasan. exethore klinês gar ho tolmêeis hypo lyssês, kai ton anaisthêton pantos etypte melous. plêgai d' amphoterois egenont' akos, hais ho men autôn egreto, ton d' hypnô poulys eripse kopos.+

Anthologia Græca, Lib. 1, Cap. 45.

See Lessing's 'Zerstreute Anmerkungen über das Epigramm', Sämmtliche Werke, 1824, ii. 22.