Editing Mimnermus (section)

====Solon====
Addressing Mimnermus and criticizing him for his stated wish to die at sixty years of age, as quoted above in [[Mimnermus#Life and work|Life and work]], the Athenian sage said:
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ἀλλ᾽ εἴ μοι κἂν νῦν ἔτι πείσεαι, ἔξελε τοῦτον:{{emdash}}
:μηδὲ μέγαιρ᾽ ὅτι σεῦ λῷον ἐπεφρασάμην:{{emdash}}
καὶ μεταποίησον, Λιγυαιστάδη, ὧδε δ᾽ ἄειδε:
:'''ὀγδωκονταέτη μοῖρα κίχοι θανάτου.'''<ref>Solon quoted by Diogenes Laertius 1.60</ref>
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But if even now you will listen to me, remove this (i.e. Mimnermus's objectionable verse){{emdash}}
:and do not be offended because my thoughts are better than yours{{emdash}}
and changing it, Ligyaistades, sing as follows:
:'''May my fated death come at eighty.'''<ref>Douglas E. Gerber, ''Greek Elegiac Poetry'', Loeb (1999), page 141</ref>}}