Religion
Book VI, 290
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Religion
With sweetest Urania did Parmenis leave her fan, the ever gentle ministrant of soft breezes, a tithe from her bed ; but now the goddess averts from her by tender zephyrs the heavy heat of the sun.
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