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Book XVI, 316: On a Portrait of Agathias Scholasticus
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
The city, with the regard of a mother to her son, figured here Agathias the rhetor and verse-writer, admiring the harmony of his eloquence in both respects, giving him the portrait as a testimony of its love and his own literary skill; and with him it set up portraits of Memnonius, his father, and of his brother, representatives of a most venerable family.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Grammarian, Michael the. “Book XVI, 316: On a Portrait of Agathias Scholasticus.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/michael-grammarian/0/.
Chicago
Grammarian, Michael the. “Book XVI, 316: On a Portrait of Agathias Scholasticus.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/michael-grammarian/0/.