Religion
Book IX, 317
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Hermaphroditus. “Goatherd, I love seeing this foul-mouthed god struck on his bald pate by the pears.” Silenus. “Goatherd, hunc ter inivi, and the young billy-goats were looking at me and tupping the young nanny-goats.” Goatherd. “Is it true, Hermaphroditus, that he did so?” Hermaphroditus “No, goatherd, I swear by Hermes.” Silenus. “I swear by Pan I did, and I was laughing all the time.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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