Living
Book IX, 625: On another Bath in the Lycian Quarter (?)
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Let my doorkeeper be the most faithful of men, keeping careful note of the time at which bathers enter me, lest anyone against his will see one of the Naiads naked in my waters, or Cypris with the longhaired Graces: “For hard are the gods to him who sees them manifestly.” ! Who would dispute Homer’s dictum ?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Consul, Macedonius the. “Book IX, 625: On another Bath in the Lycian Quarter (?).” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/macedonius/25/.
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Consul, Macedonius the. “Book IX, 625: On another Bath in the Lycian Quarter (?).” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/macedonius/25/.
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