Arts & Sciences
On a Pan Piping (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Arts & Sciences
One might surely have clearly heard Pan piping, so did the sculptor mingle breath with the form; but in despair at the sight of flying, unstaying Echo, he renounced the pipe's unavailing sound.
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Scholasticus, Arabius. “On a Pan Piping (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/arabius-scholasticus/7/.
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Scholasticus, Arabius. “On a Pan Piping (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/arabius-scholasticus/7/.
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