{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/2609/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"edition":{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/editions/1/?format=json","descriptions":[{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/descriptions/424/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"created_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033306Z","updated_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033317Z","description":"Paton edition"}],"edition_type":0,"metadata":{},"created_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z","updated_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z"},"unique_id":99992514,"created_at":"2020-07-07T19:48:20Z","updated_at":"2020-07-07T19:48:20Z","validation":0,"status":1,"text":"Praise the sturdy verse of tireless Antimachus, \nworthy of the majesty of the demigods of old, \nbeaten on the anvil of the Muses, if thou art gifted \nwith a keen ear, if thou aspirest to gravity of words, if \nthou wouldst pursue a path untrodden and unap- \nproached by others. If Homer holds the sceptre of \nsong, yet, though Zeus is greater than Poseidon, \nPoseidon his inferior is the chief of the immortals ; so \nthe Colophonian bows before Homer, but leads the \ncrowd of other singers. ","comments":[],"alignments":[],"passages":["https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:7.409/?format=json"]}