An Epigram Written by Palladas of Alexandria,4th Century AD

God's philosophical and so can wait
For the blasphemer and the reprobate

He calmly chalks their crimes up on his slate.

An Epigram Written by Palladas of Alexandria,4th Century AD

Ignorant of all logic and all law
Fortune follows her own blind course,
Kind to the criminal,trampling on the just,
Flaunting her irrational,brute force.

An Epigram Written by Palladas of Alexandria,4th Century AD

It's no great step for a poor man to the grave
He lived his life out only half alive.

But when the man of plenty nears the end of his,
Deathyawns beneath him like a precipice.

An Epigram Written by Palladas of Alexandria,4th Century AD

I swore a thousand times to write no more epigrams, for I attracted the enmity of many morons. But whenever I look upon the face of Paphlagonian Pantagathos, I can't fend off the disease.

An Epigram Written by Palladas of Alexandria,4th Century AD

Women jeer at me for being old; telling me
to look in the mirror at my life's remnant.
But whether I have white hair, or black,
I don't care, approaching my life's end.
With sweet-scented oils and lovely-leaved garlands
and Bacchus I end painful thoughts.

An Epigram Written by Palladas of Alexandria,4th Century AD

To praise is best, and blame is the cause of hatred;
But to bad-mouth someone is Attic honey.

An Epigram Written by Palladas of Alexandria,4th Century AD

Is this to be judged by age, then?
But not even age has respite from Aphrodite's frenzies.
So we trust in oaths and religion;
But after the oaths she can seek twelve gods--newer ones.