Religion
Book IX, 238
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Apollo is a big boy here in this bronze work of Onatas which testifies to the beauty of Leto and Zeus, and proclaims that not idly did Zeus love her, and that, even as the saying is, the eyes and head of the son of Cronos are glorious. Not even Hera will be displeased with this bronze which Onatas moulded to such beauty by the help of Ilithyia.’
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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