Nature
Book IX, 575
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Nature
Heaven shall sooner quench its stars and the sun make bright the face of night; the sea shall sooner provide sweet water for mortals to draw, and the dead return to the land of the living, than oblivion of those ancient pages shall rob us of the glorious name of Homer.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Thessalonica, Philippus of. “Book IX, 575.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/philippus-thessalonica/58/.
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