Nature
Book IX, 663: On a Garden by the Sea
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The sea washes terra firma, and the expanse of the dry land is navigable and blooms with marine foliage. How skilled was he who mingled the deep with the land, sea-weed with garden plants, the floods of the Nereids with the founts of the Naiads!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book IX, 663: On a Garden by the Sea.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/64/.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book IX, 663: On a Garden by the Sea.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/64/.
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