Social Commentaries
Book XI, 409
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Four times putting her lips to the lips of the jar Silenis drank up the last dregs. Fair-haired Dionysus, she defiled thee not with water, but even as thou first didst come from the vineyard she used to quaff thee generously, holding a cup even until she went to the sands of the dead.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gaetulicus. “Book XI, 409.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gaetulicus/8/.
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