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Epigram XIX: The Statue of Archilochus (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Stay, and behold Archilochus, him of old time, the maker of iambics, whose myriad fame has passed westward, alike, and towards the dawning day. Surely the Muses loved him, yea, and the Delian Apollo, so practised and so skilled he grew in forging song, and chanting to the lyre.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram XIX: The Statue of Archilochus (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/187/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram XIX: The Statue of Archilochus (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/187/.
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