Religion
Book VI, 256
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
The thick bull neck, the iron shoulders like Atlas, the hair and reverend beard like Heracles, and the lion-eyes of the Milesian giant not even Olympian Zeus saw without trembling, when Nicophon won the men’s boxing contest in the Olympian games.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Antipater (Sidon or Thessalonica).
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