Religion
Book VI, 57
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
To thee, goat-footed Pan, did Teucer, the Arab, dedicate on the pine-tree this lion’s skin, armed with five-pointed claws, flenched with its tawny, gaping head, and the very lance he slew it with. On the half-eaten lance-head on which the brute vented its roaring anger, remain the marks of its teeth. But the Nymphs of the streams and woods celebrated its death by a dance, since it often used to terrify them too.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book VI, 57.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/41/.
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