Epigram 11.349

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Codex Palatinus 23 p. 553
Codex Palatinus 23 p. 554

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εἰπὲ πόθεν σὺ μετρεῖς κόσμον καὶ πείρατα γαίης
ἐξ ὀλίγης γαίης σῶμα φέρων ὀλίγον.
σαυτὸν ἀρίθμησον πρότερον καὶ γνῶθι σεαυτόν,
καὶ τότ᾽ ἀριθμήσεις γαῖαν ἀπειρεσίην.

εἰ δ᾽ ὀλίγον πηλὸν τοῦ σώματος οὐ καταριθμεῖς,
πῶς δύνασαι γνῶναι τῶν ἀμέτρων τὰ μέτρα;

— Paton edition

Tell me whence comes it that thou measurest the
Universe and the limits of the Earth, thou who
bearest a little body made of a little earth ? Count
thyself first and know thyself, and then shaft thou
count this infinite Earth. And if thou canst not
reckon thy body’s little store of clay, how canst
thou know the measures of the immeasurable ?

— Paton edition

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