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Epigram XVI: For a Statue of Anacreon (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Mark well this statue, stranger, and say, when thou hast returned to thy home, ‘In Teos I beheld the statue of Anacreon, who surely excelled all the singers of times past.’ And if thou dost add that he delighted in the young, thou wilt truly paint all the man.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Theocritus. “Epigram XVI: For a Statue of Anacreon (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/184/.
Chicago
Theocritus. “Epigram XVI: For a Statue of Anacreon (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/184/.
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