Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 22 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Made glorious by the mighty birth of Apollo's bard, the day returns: ye Aonian throng, look kindly on these rites! These it earned, when it had given thee, Lucan, to the earth, that Baetis might be mingled with the water of Castalia.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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