Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 598
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Arts & Sciences
This man, Pisander of Camirus, first among the poets of old time, wrote of the son of Zeus, the lionfighter, the nimble-handed, and told of all the labours he accomplished. Know that the city, after many months and years, set his very self up here in bronze.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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