Religion
Epigram 35: A stranger cut me from a tree
Translated by H. W. Tytler (1793; Bohn 1856) · From Works of Callimachus (Tytler, 1793)
Religion
A stranger cut me from a tree
A beechen club, a gift to thee,
Who stopt the roaring lion’s breath,
And laid the foaming boar in death.
Declare his country, and bis name.
Archinus he; from Crete he came.
And, for the pious giver’s sake,
The proffer’d gift I freely take.
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Callimachus. “Epigram 35: A stranger cut me from a tree.” Translated by H. W. Tytler. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/129/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram 35: A stranger cut me from a tree.” Translated by H. W. Tytler. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/129/.
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