Nature
Epigram 12 (Edmonds)
Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)
Nature
Choir-master Demomeles, who set up this tripod and this effigy, Dionysus, of the sweetest God in heaven, had always been a decent fellow, and he won the victory with his men’s-chorus because he knew beauty and seemliness when he saw them.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 12 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/118/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 12 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/118/.
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