Mythology & Folklore
Book IX, 97
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
We listen still to the lament of Andromache; still we see Troy laid in ruins from her foundations and the battle-toil of Ajax, and Hector bound to the chariot and dragged under the battlements of the town— all through the verse of Maeonides, the poet whom not one country honours as its own, but all the lands of two continents.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mitylene, Alpheius of. “Book IX, 97.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/alpheius/3/.
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Mitylene, Alpheius of. “Book IX, 97.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/alpheius/3/.
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