Living
Book IX, 343
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
A blackbird, driven over the hedge together with field-fares, avoided the hollow of the suspended net. The cords from which there is no escape caught and held fast the whole flock of them, but let the blackbird alone go free from the meshes. Of a truth the race of singers is holy. Even deaf traps show fond care for winged songsters.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton: cp. No. 76.
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