Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 740
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Arts & Sciences
It is the base to which it is attached that keeps back the heifer, and if freed from this it will run off to the herd. For the bronze lows. See how much alive the artist made it. If you yoke a fellow to it, perhaps it will plough.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Geminus. “Book IX, 740.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/geminus/4/.
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