Living
Book XI, 40
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
Cleodemus, Eumenes’ boy, is still small, but tiny as he is, he dances with the boys in a little company of worshippers. Look he has even girt on the skin of a dappled fawn and he shakes the ivy on his yellow hair. Make him big, Theban King,’ so that thy little servant may soon lead holy dances of young men.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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