Living
Epigram XI
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) · From Homerica (Loeb, 1914)
Living
Glaucus, watchman of flocks, a word will I put in your heart. First give the dogs their dinner at the courtyard gate, for this is well. The dog first hears a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Attributed to Homer in antiquity.
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