Living
Book IX, 550
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
I say not, Tenos, that thou art not famous, for of old the winged sons of Boreas got thee renown. But Ortygia was celebrated too, and her name reached to the Rhipaean Hyperboreans. But now thou livest and she is dead. Who would have expected to see Delos more desert than Tenos ? ?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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