Living
Fragment XIII (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Living
Mute was Phoebus in this grievous anguish. All herbs he sought, and strove to win some wise healing art, and he anointed all the wound with nectar and ambrosia, but remedeless are all the wounds of Fate.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Smyrna, Bion of. “Fragment XIII (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bion/30/.
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Smyrna, Bion of. “Fragment XIII (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bion/30/.
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