Religion
Epigram LXIII (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Religion
Ye goats of Cynthus, be of good cheer! for now the bow of Cretan Echemmas is laid up in Ortygia in the temple of Artemis,—that bow wherewith he made the great hill empty of you. But now he hath ceased, ye goats, since the goddess hath wrought a truce.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LXIII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/217/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LXIII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/217/.
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