Religion
To Athene Ergane (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
The shuttle that sang at morning with the earliest swallows' cry, kingfisher of Pallas in the loom, and the heavy-headed twirling spindle, light-running spinner of the twisted yarn, and the bobbins, and this basket, friend to the distaff, keeper of the spun warp-thread and the reel, Telesilla, the industrious daughter of good Diocles, dedicates to the Maiden, mistress of wool-dressers.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “To Athene Ergane (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/83/.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “To Athene Ergane (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/83/.
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