Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 266
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Phoebus spoke thus of the sweet musician Glaphyrus when he breathed the spirit of love from his pierced flute: “Marsyas, thou didst lie concerning thy invention, for this man hath stolen Athena’s flute from Phrygia. If thou hadst then breathed into such as this, Hyagnis had never wept for the contest by the Maeander in which the flute was fatal.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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