Mythology & Folklore
Book XVI, 127
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Who moulded in bronze this one-shoed Thracian Lycurgus, the chieftain of the Edones? Look how, in his insolent fury, standing by the stem of Bacchus’ vine, he holds high over his head his heavy axe. His pose speaks of his old over-boldness, and even in the brass his insolent fury has that bitterness we look for.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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