Religion
Epigram II: For a Herdsman’s Offering (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Daphnis, the white-limbed Daphnis, that pipes on his fair flute the pastoral strains offered to Pan these gifts,—his pierced reed-pipes, his crook, a javelin keen, a fawn-skin, and the scrip wherein he was wont, on a time, to carry the apples of Love.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Theocritus. “Epigram II: For a Herdsman’s Offering (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/170/.
Chicago
Theocritus. “Epigram II: For a Herdsman’s Offering (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/170/.
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