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Book XVI, 323: On the Invention of Glass
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
The workman having quarried it, brought the glass and put in the fire the mass hard as iron, and the glass, set afire by the all-devouring flames, ran out melted like wax. And to men it was a marvel to see a trail flowing from the fire, and the workman trembling lest it should fall and break; and on the points of the double forceps he put the lump.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Crete, Mesomedes of. “Book XVI, 323: On the Invention of Glass.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/mesomedes/1/.
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