Nature

Epigram 13 (Edmonds)

by Theocritus fl. c. 270 BC

Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)

Nature

This is not the People’s Cyprian, but pray when you propitiate this Goddess do so by the name of Heavenly; for this is the offering of a chaste woman, to wit of Chrysogone, in the house of Amphicles, whose children and whose life she shared; so that beginning, Great Lady, with worship of thee, they ever increased their happiness with the years. For any that have a care for the Immortals are the better off for it themselves.

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

MLA

Theocritus. “Epigram 13 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/119/.

Chicago

Theocritus. “Epigram 13 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/119/.

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