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Book IX, 237
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
A, “Herdsman, tell me by Pan whose is this colossal statue of beech-wood to which thou art pouring a libation of milk.” B. “The Tirynthian’s! who wrestled with the lion. Seest thou not his bow, simpleton, and his club of wild olive? All hail to thee, calf-devouring Heracles, and guard this fold, that, instead of these few, my cattle may be ten thousand.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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