Religion
Book VI, 41
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
His brazen share that breaks the clods and cuts the fallows, the leather thong that passes under the neck of the ox, the goad with which he pricks it, and his plough-bolt doth the husbandman Callimenes dedicate to thee, Demeter, after cutting the back of his well-ploughed field. Grant me to reap the corn, and I will bring thee a sickle, too.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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