Nature
Epigram 17 (Edmonds)
Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)
Nature
Look well upon this statue, good Stranger, and when you return home say “I saw at Teos a likeness of Anacreon, the very greatest of the old makers of songs’; and you will describe him to the letter if you say also “He was the delight of the young.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 17 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/123/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 17 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/123/.
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