Religion
Book VI, 310
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Simos, son of Miccus, when he gave me to the Muses, prayed for learning, and they gave it him like Glaucus, a great gift in return for a little. I hang dedicated here (in the school), the tragic mask of Dionysus, yawning twice as much as the Samian’s letter? as I listen to the boys, and they go on saying “My hair is holy,’ telling me my own dream.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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