Mythology & Folklore
Book XVI, 245: On a Statue of a Satyr
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Mythology & Folklore
Dionysus, seeing the Satyr in such pain, and pitying him, made him into stone, but not even so did he cease from his anguish ill to bear; but even though he be stone he still suffers, the luckless creature.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Scholasticus, Leontius. “Book XVI, 245: On a Statue of a Satyr.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/leontius/13/.
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Scholasticus, Leontius. “Book XVI, 245: On a Statue of a Satyr.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/leontius/13/.
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