Social Commentaries
Book IX, 101
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Few are the birth-places of the heroes that are still to be seen, and those yet left are not much higher than the soil. So, as I passed thee by, did I recognise thee, unhappy Mycenae, more waste than any goat-fold. The herds still point thee out, and it was an old man who said to me, “Here stood once the city, rich in gold, that the Cyclopes built.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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