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Mimnermus's elegies mourn the brevity of youth and the miseries of old age with a frankness that made him, for later Greeks, the founding poet of erotic and reflective elegy.
Mimnermus's elegies mourn the brevity of youth and the miseries of old age with a frankness that made him, for later Greeks, the founding poet of erotic and reflective elegy.
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