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Book IX, 307
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Daphne, who once refused Phoebus, now uprears her dark-leaved bough from the altar of Caesar, having found a better god than that former one. Though she hated the son of Leto, she desires Zeus the son of Aeneas. She struck root not in the Earth, her mother, but in a stone. Not even stone can refuse to bear offspring to Caesar.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Thessalonica, Philippus of. “Book IX, 307.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/philippus-thessalonica/51/.
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Thessalonica, Philippus of. “Book IX, 307.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/philippus-thessalonica/51/.
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