Religion
Book VI, 72
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Religion
I saw the hare sitting near the vine, nibbling off many grapes. I called the farmer, who saw it, and surprising it he knocked out its brains with a stone. He said in triumph, “It seems I have given a double gift to Bacchus, a libation and a sacrifice.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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