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Glaphyrus the Flute-Player (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Phoebus said over clear-voiced Glaphyrus as he breathed desire through the pierced lotus-pipes, "O Marsyas, thou didst tell false of thy discovery, for this is he who carried off Athena's flutes out of Phrygia; and if thou hadst blown then in such as his, Hyagnis would not have wept that disastrous flute-strife by Maeander."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Thessalonica, Antipater of. “Glaphyrus the Flute-Player (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/80/.
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “Glaphyrus the Flute-Player (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/80/.
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