Religion
Book VI, 205
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
These are the tools of the carpenter Leontichus, the grooved file, the plane, rapid devourer of wood, the line and ochre-box, the hammer lying next them that strikes with both ends, the rule stained with ochre, the drill-bow and rasp, and this heavy axe with its handle, the president of the craft; his revolving augers and quick gimlets too, and these four screw-drivers and his double-edged adze—all these on ceasing from his calling he dedicated to Athene who gives grace to work.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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