{"id":671,"date":"2018-08-27T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glencruittencathedraloftrees.org\/?p=671"},"modified":"2021-02-06T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T13:57:52","slug":"hidden-secrets-of-the-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glencruittencathedraloftrees.org\/hidden-secrets-of-the-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Secrets of the Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"671\" class=\"elementor elementor-671\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b2a4d4b elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b2a4d4b\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Visitors to the Cathedral of Trees have often asked for a translation of the Greek text on the gravestone on the left side of the altar.\u00a0 \u00a0Sadly, we haven&#8217;t been able to provide one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div id=\"viewer-agpaj\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div><p id=\"viewer-7n7cv\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">However, earlier this summer a kind friend, Colin Heber-Percy, (a very modest ancient Greek scholar!) came to our help.\u00a0 On a rainy day, he copied down the script, did a bit of research and discovered the origin of the quotation .\u00a0 It is from a piece by Callimachus (310-240BC) and it is his epigram addressed to his dear friend Heracleitus.\u00a0 Here is a translation with the words from the gravestone in capitals.<\/span><\/p><div id=\"viewer-8iiv8\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div><p id=\"viewer-48guk\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><em>&#8220;One told me, Heracleitus, of thy death and brought me to tears.\u00a0 \u00a0I remembered how often we two in talking put the sun to rest.\u00a0 Thou, methinks Halicarnasian friend, art ashes long and long ago;\u00a0 BUT THY NIGHTINGALES STILL\u00a0 LIVE whereon 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