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Book IX, 306
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Cease working, ye woodcutters, at least as far as concerns ships. It is no longer pine-trees that glide over the waves but hides. Ships are no longer built with bolts of bronze or iron, but their hulls are held together with flaxen cords, and the same ship now floats on the sea and now travels on land, folded to be mounted on a carriage. Argo was formerly the theme of song, but Pallas has granted to Sabinus to build a still more novel keel.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “Book IX, 306.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/35/.
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