Religion
Book VI, 206
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
To Aphrodite the Heavenly we girl companions, all of one age, give these gifts : Bitinna these sandals, a comfort to her feet, the pretty work of skilled shoemakers, Philaenis the net, dyed with sea-purple, that confined her straying hair, Anticlea her fan, lovely Heraclea her veil, fine as a spider’s web, and the daughter of Aristotle, who bears her father’s name, her coiled snake, the gold ornament of her slender ankles,
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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