Nature
Epigram X: For a Statue of the Muses
Translated by C. S. Calverley (1869) · From Epigrams and Epitaphs
Nature
To you this marble statue, maids divine,
Xenocles raised, one tribute unto nine.
Your votary all admit him: by this skill
He gat him fame: and you he honours still.
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MLA
Theocritus. “Epigram X: For a Statue of the Muses.” Translated by C. S. Calverley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/40/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram X: For a Statue of the Muses.” Translated by C. S. Calverley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/40/.
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