Religion
Book VI, 281
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Great Mother, who watchest over Dindyma and the hills of Burnt Phrygia,® bring, O sovereign lady, little Aristodike, Silene’s daughter, up to an age ripe for marriage and the hymn of Hymen, the due end of girlhood. For this, dancing at many a festival held in thy courts and before thy altar, she tossed this way and that her virgin hair.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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