Living
Book IX, 787: On a Guest-house
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Stranger, who formerly on your arrival by land or by sea wandered about with homeless feet, approach now and stay your steps here, where, if you wish to dwell, you will find a lodging all ready. But if you, citizen, demand who made me, it was Eulogius, the good bishop of Alexandria.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Patriarch, Sophronius the. “Book IX, 787: On a Guest-house.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sophronius/2/.
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Patriarch, Sophronius the. “Book IX, 787: On a Guest-house.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sophronius/2/.
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