Arts & Sciences
Book XVI, 78
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Thou art envious, O pencil, and grudgest us who look, hiding her golden hair in a caul. But if in the picture thou hidest the supreme grace of her supreme head, thou canst not be trusted touching the rest of her beauty. Every pencil is favourable to form, but thou alone hast stolen from the loveliness of Theodora.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Attribution queried by Paton.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book XVI, 78.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/76/.
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