Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 129
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
A traveller, ploughing with his ship the broad gulf of the Adriatic, said to the captain, “How much sea have we still to traverse?” And he answered him, “Voyager, between Cretan Ram’s Head and Sicilian Peloris are six thousand stades, and twice two-fifths of the distance we have traversed remains till the Sicilian strait.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Metrodorus. “Book XIV, 129.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/metrodorus/15/.
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