Mythology & Folklore
Book IX, 192
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
A. “Ye books, who are ye, what do ye contain?” B. “Daughters of Maeonides, and we tell the tales of Troy; one, the wrath of Achilles and the deeds of Hector’s hands, and all the struggles of the ten years’ war; the other, the labours of Ulysses and the tears of good Penelope by her widowed couch.” A. “I worship you and the Muses; for after your song the world could say it possessed eleven Pierian sisters.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “Book IX, 192.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/29/.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “Book IX, 192.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/29/.
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