Living
Book IX, 729
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
Let someone attach me to the solid plough and put a yoke on my neck, for as far as depends on thy art, Myron, I will plough.
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