Living
Book IX, 206: On finishing the Punctuation and Accentuation of Herodian’s “Universal Prosody”
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Ou for the number of rules all saying the same thing, and scarcely visible scratches, the work of my fine pen! My eyes ache, my wrist, my back, my neck and shoulders, and I feel universally the pain of the “Universal.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Athens, Eupithius of. “Book IX, 206: On finishing the Punctuation and Accentuation of Herodian’s “Universal Prosody”.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/eupithius-athens/0/.
Chicago
Athens, Eupithius of. “Book IX, 206: On finishing the Punctuation and Accentuation of Herodian’s “Universal Prosody”.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/eupithius-athens/0/.