Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 17 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Revered grandson of Latona, who with the magic of thy gentle herbs dost win over the threads and brief distaffs of the Fates, these locks by his master praised thy boy has sent, his vow's fulfilment, from Latium's city; and to his consecrated hair has he added the bright disk, by whose judgment his happy beauty was assured. Do thou preserve his youthful bloom, that he be no fairer with long curls than with shortened locks!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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