Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 26
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
These are the divine-voiced women that Helicon fed with song, Helicon and Macedonian Pieria’s rock: Praxilla; Moero; Anyte, the female Homer; Sappho, glory of the Lesbian women with lovely tresses; Erinna; renowned Telesilla; and thou, Corinna, who didst sing the martial shield of Athena; Nossis, the tender-voiced, and dulcet-toned Myrtis— all craftswomen of eternal pages. Great Heaven gave birth to nine Muses, and Earth to these ten, the deathless delight of men.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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