Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 342
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Arts & Sciences
An epigram of many lines does not, I say, conform to the Muses’ law. Seek not the long course in the short stadion. The long race has many rounds, but in the stadion sharp and short is the strain on the wind.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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