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Book XVI, 147: On a Painting of Andromeda
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
The land is Ethiopian; he with the winged sandals is Perseus; she who is chained to the rock is Andromeda; the face is the Gorgon’s, whose glance turns men to stone; the sea-monster is the task set by Love; she who boasted of her child’s beauty is Cassiopea. Andromeda releases from the rock her feet inured to numbness and dead, and her suitor carries off the bride his prize.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “Book XVI, 147: On a Painting of Andromeda.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/47/.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “Book XVI, 147: On a Painting of Andromeda.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/47/.
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