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Book IX, 282
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Strangers, I, whom you take for a tree, am a maiden.’ Bid the slaves’ hands that are prepared to cut me spare the laurel. Instead of me, let travellers cut to strew as a couch boughs of arbutus or terebinth, for they are not far away. The brook is about a hundred yards away from me, and from its springs a wood containing every kind of tree is distant about seventy yards.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Headed "Antipater of Macedonia".
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “Book IX, 282.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/52/.
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “Book IX, 282.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/52/.
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