Arts & Sciences
Book XVI, 51
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
We honour the boy Thyonichus with this statue, not that thou mayst see by the beauty of this monument how comely he was, but, good Sir, that thou mayst learn his achievement, and be emulous of such enthusiasm. This is he whose legs never gave way owing to fatigue, and who vanquished every adversary, him of his own age, the younger one, and the elder one.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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