Religion
Book VI, 154
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Old Biton of Arcady dedicated these things to rustic Pan, and Bacchus the reveller, and the Nymphs; to Pan a newly born kid, its mother’s play-fellow, to Bacchus a branch of vagrant ivy, to the Nymphs the varied bloom of shady Autumn and blood-red roses in full flower. In return for which, bless the old man’s house with abundance— ye Nymphs, of water, Pan, of milk, and Bacchus, of grapes.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Ascribed to Leonidas of Tarentum or Gaetulicus.
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