Nature
Book IX, 429
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Nature
Aristo sung of Nauplius, the watchman of sea-beaten Euboea, and the song set me on fire, valiant as I am. The flame of that false beacon shown in the night from the rock of Caphereus caught my ill-fated heart.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “Book IX, 429.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/34/.
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