Nature
Book IX, 453
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Nature
Zeus who dwellest in heaven, the ox itself, a suppliant at thy altar, lows, begging to be saved from death. Release the plougher, son of Cronos ; for thou thyself, O king, didst become a bull to bear Europa across the sea.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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