Religion
Book VI, 93
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Religion
Harpation the huntsman, the old man nothing but wrinkles, offered me, this hunting spear, to Heracles ; for by reason of many years his hands would no longer support my weight and his head is now grey.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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