Nature
Book IX, 707
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
I am reckoned among rivers, but rival the sea mn volume, Strymon, the fresh-water sea of Thrace. I am both a deep stream and a field yielding crops through my water, for water-chestnuts sweeter than the fruits of Demeter rise from me. The depths, too, are productive in Thrace, and we deem, Nile, that the bearer of the crop is superior to its feeder.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Headed "Tullius Geminus".
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