Three passages without comment, & an epigram.

.בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֶלוֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הַעוֹלָם שֵהֵחְיָנוּ וְקִיְימָנוּ וְהִגִעָנוּ לַזְמַן הַזֶה

I am graduating. The nightmare is over.

1. Timon of Phlius:

πολλοὶ μὲν βόσκονται ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πολυφύλῳ
βιβλιακοὶ χαρακῖται ἀπείριτα δηριόωντες
Μουσέων ἐν ταλάρῳ. (Supplementum Hellenisticum frag. 786)

Many are pastured in populous Egypt—
Cloistered scholars, disputing endlessly
In the birdcage of the muses.

2. Callimachus, Aetia fr. 1.7-8.

φημὶ δὲ και Τελχῖσιν ἐγὼ τόδε· 'φῦλον ἀκανθές,
μοῦνον ἑὸν τήκειν ἧπαρ ἐπιστάμενον...'

But here's what I say to the Telchines: thornthicket race,
race that knows only how to melt its heart away...

3. Bereshit 41:51 and 48:14.

.וַיִּקְרָא יוֹסֵף אֶת-שֵׁם הַבְּכוֹר, מְנַשֶּׁה: כִּי-נַשַּׁנִי אֱלֹהִים אֶת-כָּל-עֲמָלִי, וְאֵת כָּל-בֵּית אָבִי

And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.'

.וַיִּשְׁלַח יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת-יְמִינוֹ וַיָּשֶׁת עַל-רֹאשׁ אֶפְרַיִם, וְהוּא הַצָּעִיר, וְאֶת-שְׂמֹאלוֹ, עַל-רֹאשׁ מְנַשֶּׁה: שִׂכֵּל, אֶת-יָדָיו, כִּי מְנַשֶּׁה, הַבְּכוֹר

And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born.

4. Epigram.

πολλοὶ μὲν βόσκονται ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πολυφύλῳ


A black ship bears me across the isle of Pharos,
Out of the carbon shoals, where our sunken lighthouse
Leans out of silt and old Alexandrian losses—
    From where it washes,
Receive this remnant, Ephraim, honored brother:
I am Manasseh of Carthage, cloistered scholar
Who melted his heart in the birdcage of the muses.

            — Claudius Vandermeer, M.A. 2010.