Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 121
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
From Cadiz to the city of the seven hills the sixth of the road is to the banks of Baetis, loud with the lowing of herds, and hence a fifth to the Phocian soil of Pylades—the land is Vaccaean, its name derived from the abundance of cows. Thence to the precipitous Pyrenees is one-eighth and the twelfth part of one-tenth. Between the Pyrenees and the lofty Alps lies one-fourth of the road. Now begins Italy and straight after one-twelfth appears the amber of the Po. O blessed am I who have accomplished two thousand and five hundred stades journeying from thence! For the Palace on the Tarpeian rock is my journey’s object.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Solution: The total distance is 15,000 stades (say 1,500 miles).
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