Nature
Epigram 1 (Edmonds)
Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)
Those dewy roses and that thick bushy thyme are an offering to the Ladies of Helicon, and since ’tis the Delphian Rock hath made it honoured, the dark-leaved bay, Pythian Healer, is for thee; and yon horny white he-goat that crops the outmost sprays of the terebinth-tree is to be the blood-offering upon the altar.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 1 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/107/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 1 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/107/.
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