The Grave of the Grammarian Lysias

Very close to you, as you enter on the right, in the Beirut

library, we buried the sage Lysias,

the grammarian. The spot is beautifully right.

We placed him near those things of his that he perhaps

remembers even there — scholia, texts, grammars,

scriptures, numerous commentaries

in tomes on hellenisms.This way, his grave will also be seen and honoredby us, when we pass among the books.