Arts & Sciences
Book XVI, 57: On a Bacchant in Byzantium
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Arts & Sciences
Not Nature, but Art, made the Bacchant frenzied, mixing madness with the stone.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book XVI, 57: On a Bacchant in Byzantium.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/74/.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book XVI, 57: On a Bacchant in Byzantium.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/74/.
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