Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 752
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Arts & Sciences
I am Drunkenness, the work of a skilled hand, but I am carved on the sober stone amethyst. The stone is foreign to the work. But I am the sacred possession of Cleopatra: on the queen’s hand even the drunken goddess should be sober.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Also attributed to Antipater of Thessalonica.
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