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Book IX, 308: On Arion
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
When the sea-robbers near the Tyrrhene surges cast the lyre-player into the sea from the ship, a dolphin straightway received him, together with the sweet-voiced lyre to whose strains he sung, and swum, saving him from the deep, till it landed on the Isthmus of Corinth. Had the sea, then, fish which were juster than men?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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