Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 10
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
I know of caldrons that cannot be silent, but incite the brass to sound articulately, the first responding to the second, and the third transferring the sound to the fourth. But if the motive force is still and does not blow, the caldron is voiceless, for it is not gifted with speech by nature. But the nature of your caldrons is well spoken, and meeting with your own nature it becomes more so, keeping silence when meet and speaking when meet.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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