Living
Book XI, 48
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
Moulding the silver make me, Hephaestus, no suit of armour, but fashion as deep as thou canst a hollow cup, and work on it neither stars nor chariots nor hateful Orion, but blooming vines and laughing clusters with lovely Bacchus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Anacreon. “Book XI, 48.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anacreon/97/.
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