History & Politics
Book XIII, 15
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
History & Politics
I am Dicon, the son of Callimbrotus; but I was victor four times at Nemea, twice in the Olympian games, five times in the Pythian, and thrice in the Isthmian. I crown the city of Syracuse.
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Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘Two hexameters followed by a pentameter’.
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