Religion
Book VI, 31
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Religion
I nave offered this as a common gift to Pan the goattreader, to Dionysus the giver of good fruit, and to Demeter the Earth-goddess, and I beg from them fine flocks, good wine and to gather good grain from the ears.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Paton marks the attribution with a query.
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