Arts & Sciences
Book XIII, 11
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Arts & Sciences
A. Who dedicated this portrait? B. Dorieus of Thurii. A. Was he not a Rhodian by descent? B. Yea, before he was exiled from his country. Many deeds of might he had done by his terrible hand.
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Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘Hyporchematic pentameters’.
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