Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 63
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Arts & Sciences
Lyde is my name and I am of Lydian race, and Antimachus has made me more noble than any descendant of Codrus.?, For who has not sung me, who has not read Lyde, the joint work of the Muses and Antimachus ?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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