Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 599
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Arts & Sciences
Look well on this statue, stranger, and tell on thy return home: “I saw in Teos the statue of Anacreon, a song-writer most excellent of those of old.” And adding that he took delight in young men, thou shalt exactly describe the whole man.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Book IX, 599.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/69/.
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Theocritus. “Book IX, 599.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/69/.
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