Nature
Epigram 21 (Edmonds)
Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)
Nature
Stand and look at Archilochus, the old maker of iambic verse, whose infinite renown hath spread both to utmost east and furthest west. Sure the Muses and Delian Apollo liked him well, such taste and skill had he to bring both to the framing of the words and to the setting of them to the lyre.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 21 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/127/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 21 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/127/.
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