Religion
Book VI, 254
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
When Time was about to drag down to Hades pathic Statyllius, the effeminate old stump of Aphrodite, he dedicated in the porch of Priapus his light summer dresses dyed in scarlet and crimson, his false hair greasy with spikenard, his white shoes that shone on his shapely ankles, the chest in which reposed his bombasine frippery, and his flute that breathed sweet music in the revels of the harlot tribe.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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