Religion

Book VI, 119

by Moero of Byzantium c. 300 BC (Paton’s date)

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)

Religion

Cluster, full of the juice of Dionysus, thou restest under the roof of Aphrodite’s golden chamber : no longer shall the vine, thy mother, cast her lovely branch around thee, and put forth above thy head her sweet leaves,

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

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