Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 433
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
By the Muses, wilt thou play something sweet to me on the double flute and I will lift up my harp and begin a tune, and the herd Daphnis shall stand close by and make music with the breath of the wax-joined pipe. Standing there hard by, inside the cave shaggy with hanging greenery, let us bereave Pan the goat-mounter of sleep.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Book IX, 433.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/64/.
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