Religion
Book VI, 247
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Patitantian Maid who lovest the loom,” Aesione, now bowed with age, suspends to thee the gift of her poverty, her weaving-comb that sings like the early-chattering swallows, with the prongs of which weaver Pallas smooths the thread, her comb for dressing the wool, her spindle worn by the fingers, swimming () with the twirling thread, and her wicker basket which the wool dressed by her teeth once filled.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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