Religion

Book VI, 113

by Simmias Grammaticus end of the 4th century BC (Paton’s date)

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)

Religion

I was formerly one of the two horns of a wild long-haired ibex, and was garlanded with green leaves ; but now the worker in horn has adapted me for Nicomachus, stretching on me the strong sinew

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Grammaticus, Simmias. “Book VI, 113.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/simmias/0/.

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