Love
Book XVI, 178: On the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Look on the work of Apelles’ pencil: Cypris, just rising from the sea, her mother; how, grasping her dripping hair with her hand, she wrings the foam from the wet locks. Athena and Hera themselves will now say, “No longer do we enter the contest of beauty with thee.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “Book XVI, 178: On the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/76/.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “Book XVI, 178: On the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/76/.
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