Religion
Book VI, 243
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
“Hera, who watchest over Samos and whose is Imbrasus, accept, gracious goddess, this birthday sacrifice, these heifer victims, dearest of all to thee, if we priests know the law of the blessed gods.” Thus Maximus prayed as he poured the libation, and she granted his prayer without fail, nor did the spinning Fates grudge it.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Ascribed to Diodorus.
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