Religion
Book VI, 144
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Religion
Leocrates, son of Stroebus, when thou didst dedicate this statue to Hermes, neither the beautiful-haired Graces were heedless of it, nor joyous Academe, in whose bosom I tell of thy beneficence to all who approach.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Paton heads this group of epigrams “Attributed to Anacreon”.
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