Arts & Sciences
Catalepton 15
Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough (Loeb, 1918) · From Minor Poems (Loeb, 1918)
Arts & Sciences
To that divine poet who was sweeter than the Syracusan bard, greater than Hesiod, and not inferior to Homer in his speech — to him also belong these first efforts, even his untutored Muse in varied strain.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Appendix Vergiliana; authorship by Virgil doubtful.
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Virgil. “Catalepton 15.” Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/virgil/55/.
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Virgil. “Catalepton 15.” Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/virgil/55/.
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