Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 44 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
I asked Vindex lately whose art and happy toil fashioned Alcides. He laughed — for this is his way — and slightly nodding, said: "Don't you, a poet, know your Greek? The base has an inscription and shows the name." I read "of Lysippus ": thought it was of Phidias!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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