Religion
Book VI, 332
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
To Casian Zeus did Trajan, the descendant of Aeneas, dedicate these ornaments, the king of men to the king of gods: two curiously fashioned cups and the horn of a urus? mounted in shining gold, selected from his first booty when, tirelessly fighting, he had overthrown with his spear the insolent Getae. But, Lord of the black clouds, entrust to him, too, the glorious accomplishment of this Persian war, that thy heart’s joy may be doubled as thou lookest on the spoils of both foes, the Getae and the Arsacidae.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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