Religion
Book VI, 14
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
The three brothers dedicated to Pan these implements of their craft: Damis his net for trapping the beasts of the mountain, Clitor this net for fish, and Pigres this untearable net that fetters birds’ necks. For they never returned home with empty nets, the one from the copses, the second from the air, the third from the sea.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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