Social Commentaries
On the Spectacles, 26 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
A trained bevy of Nereids pla}red along the sea, and with their varied marshalling prankt the yielding waters. Threatful with straight tooth, was a trident, with curved tooth an anchor: we deemed an oar, and we deemed a bark was there, and that the Laconians' star glittered in welcome to the seamen, and sails bellied broad for all to see. Who imagined arts so wondrous in liquid waves? These pastimes either Thetis taught or herself she learned.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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