History & Politics
Book XIII, 16
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Kings of Sparta were my fathers and brothers, and I, Cynisca, winning the race with my chariot of swift-footed horses, erected this statue. J assert that am the only woman in all Greece who won this crown.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘Three hexameters followed by a pentameter’.
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