Religion
Book IX, 241
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
You were a neat-herd, Phoebus, and Poseidon was a nag, Zeus was a swan, and famous Ammon a snake ? (they did it for the sake of girls, but you, Apollo, were after a boy), all to conceal your identity; for you all enjoy by force and not by persuasion. Evagoras, however, being made of brass, need practise no deceit, but in his own form, and without any transformation, possesses all and every of either sex.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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