History & Politics
Book IX, 285
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
No longer does the mighty-tusked elephant, with turreted back and ready to fight phalanxes, charge unchecked into the battle; but in fear he hath yielded his thick neck to the yoke, and draws the car of divine Caesar. The wild beast knows the delight of peace; discarding the accoutrement of war, he conducts instead the father of good order.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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