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Book IX, Epigram 58 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Nymph, Queen of the sacred mere, to whom Sabinus by pious gift has given a temple, welcome to thee and destined to endure — so may hilly Umbria ever honour thy fount, and thy Sassina prize not more the waters of Baiae — receive with placid brow my gift, these anxious verses; then shalt thou be to my Muse her spring of Pegasus. "Whoever gives his poems to temples of the Nj mphs, himself declares what should be done with his books.''
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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