Religion
Book IX, 248
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Religion
If Dionysus had come revelling with the Maenads and Satyrs to holy Olympus, looking just as Pylades the great artist played him in the ballet according to the true canons of the servants of the tragic Muse, Hera, the consort of Zeus, would have ceased to be jealous, and exclaimed : “Semele, thou didst pretend that Bacchus was thy son; twas I who bore him.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Boethus. “Book IX, 248.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/boethus/0/.
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Boethus. “Book IX, 248.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/boethus/0/.