Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 776
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Arts & Sciences
The colour and the beauty is worthy of Zeuxis; but Satyreius painted me on a little crystal and gave the pretty miniature to Arsinoe. I am the queen’s own image, and no whit inferior to a large picture.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sardis, Diodorus of. “Book IX, 776.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/diodorus-sardis/12/.
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Sardis, Diodorus of. “Book IX, 776.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/diodorus-sardis/12/.
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