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He never wants anything but what’s right and fair; only when you come to settle what’s right and fair, it’s everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that’s his idea of a compromise.

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Callimachus

Callimachus

Callimachus (Greek: ο Καλλίμαχος, 310 BC/305 BC-240 BC) was a native of Cyrene, Libya. Callimachus was a noted poet, critic and scholar of the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of Egyptian Greek Pharaohs Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes. Although he was never made chief librarian, he was responsible for producing the catalogue of all the volumes contained in the Library. His Pinakes (tablets), 120 volumes long, provided the complete and chronologically arranged catalogue of the Library, laying the foundation for later work on the history of Greek literature. As one of the earliest critic-poets, he typifies Hellenistic scholarship.

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