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Viol and Flute (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Wilt thou for the Muses' sake play me somewhat of sweet on thy twin flutes? and I lifting the harp will begin to make music on the strings; and Daphnis the neatherd will mingle enchantment with tuneable breath of the wax-bound pipe; and thus standing nigh within the fringed cavern mouth, let us rob sleep from Pan the lord of the goats.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Viol and Flute (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/134/.
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Theocritus. “Viol and Flute (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/134/.
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