Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 216
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
You will cite the holy marriage of Harmonia, but that of Oedipus was unlawful. You will tell me of Antigone’s piety, but her brothers were most wicked. Ino was made immortal, but Athamas was ill-fated. The lyre built the walls by its music, but the strains of the flute were fatal to them. So did Heaven compound the destiny of Thebes, mixing good and evil in equal portions.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton: cp. Nos. 250, 253.
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