Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 605
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Arts & Sciences
Callo had her portrait made exactly like herself, and hung the picture in the house of fair-haired Aphrodite. How gentle she looks standing there! Look how fresh is the bloom of her Cheri! All hail to her! for there is no fault in her life.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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