Religion
Epigram X: A Group of the Muses (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
For your delight, all ye Goddesses Nine, did Xenocles offer this statue of marble, Xenocles that hath music in his soul, as none will deny. And inasmuch as for his skill in this art he wins renown, he forgets not to give their due to the Muses.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram X: A Group of the Muses (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/178/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram X: A Group of the Muses (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/178/.
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