Living
Book IX, 388-389
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Under the above a soldier (some say Trajan) wrote : “They are bold, for they look not on the face of my helmet.” When the Emperor praised this and wrote “Reveal who you are,” he replied: I am a soldier of cuirassed Mars and also a servant of Heliconian Apollo, chosen among the first men-at-arms.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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