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Epigram XX: The Statue of Pisander (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
This man, behold, Pisander of Corinth, of all the ancient makers was the first who wrote of the son of Zeus, the lion-slayer, the ready of hand, and spake of all the adventures that with toil he achieved. Know this therefore, that the people set him here, a statue of bronze, when many months had gone by and many years.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram XX: The Statue of Pisander (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/188/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram XX: The Statue of Pisander (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/188/.
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