Religion
To Apollo and the Muses (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
These dewy roses and yonder close-curled wild thyme are laid before the maidens of Helicon, and the dark-leaved laurels before thee, Pythian Healer, since the Delphic rock made this thine ornament; and this white-horned he-goat shall stain your altar, who nibbles the tip of the terebinth shoot.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Theocritus. “To Apollo and the Muses (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/132/.
Chicago
Theocritus. “To Apollo and the Muses (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/132/.
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