Religion
Epigram I: For a Rustic Altar (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
These dew-drenched roses and that tufted thyme are offered to the ladies of Helicon. And the dark-leaved laurels are thine, O Pythian Paean, since the rock of Delphi bare this leafage to thine honour. The altar this white-horned goat shall stain with blood, this goat that browses on the tips of the terebinth boughs.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram I: For a Rustic Altar (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/169/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram I: For a Rustic Altar (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/169/.
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