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Book IX, 806: On a Sun-dial
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
This place was once a garden, and the shade of the leaves shutting out the sun made it like night. But now Sergius, the patriarch, who hath seen with his eyes and reveals the mysteries of the Holy Trinity, contrived to make it bright and sunlit. Here this fixed stone seven times announces the eternal and fixed revolutions of the vault of heaven.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Anonymous (Greek Anthology). “Book IX, 806: On a Sun-dial.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-greek-anthology/660/.
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Anonymous (Greek Anthology). “Book IX, 806: On a Sun-dial.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-greek-anthology/660/.
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