Own Voices: A Fragment of Cleomachus, Poetae Lyrici Graeci xxxii

 Quis mihi calicem ademit?  Ego bibens…

Τίς την υδρίην ημών εψόφησ; εγω πίνων...

--Cleomachus, Poetae Lyrici Graeci Fragment II.32 (1853); Translated into Latin by K. Masters

Who took my cup? I was still drinking that…

CLEOMACHUS	MAP:
Name: Cleomachus   Date:  4th century BCE Works:  [fragments]	REGION  5
BIO:	Timeline:
According to Strabo, Cleomachus was a boxer who became a poet after falling in love with a man. The Christian author Tertullian adds more information to this transformation, adding that the poet “covered the scars of their gauntlets with bangles, and exchanged their athletic uniform for a dress.”	HELLENISTIC GREEK