Living
Book XI, 20
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Away with you who sing of loccae! (cloaks) or lophnides! (torches) or camasenes! (fish), race of thorn-gathering poets; and you who practising effeminately decorative verse drink only simple water from the holy fount. To-day we pour the wine in honour of the birthday of Archilochus and virile Homer. Our bowl receives no water-drinkers.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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