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Book VI, 344: On the Altar in Thespiae

by Anonymous (Greek Anthology) various, 7th c. BC – 10th c. AD

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)

Religion

Spacious Thespiae once sent these men-at-arms to barbarous Asia to avenge their ancestors, and having sacked with Alexander the cities of Persia, they set up to Zeus the Thunderer this curiously-wrought tripod.

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

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Anonymous (Greek Anthology). “Book VI, 344: On the Altar in Thespiae.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-greek-anthology/262/.

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Anonymous (Greek Anthology). “Book VI, 344: On the Altar in Thespiae.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-greek-anthology/262/.

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