Epigram 8 (Edmonds)

The Great Healer’s son is come to Miletus now, to live with his fellow-craftsman Nicias, who both maketh sacrifice before him every day, and hath now made carve this statue of fragrant cedar-wood; he promised Eétion a round price for the finished cunning of his hand, and Eétion hath put forth all his art to the making of the work.