Epigram 11.253

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Codex Palatinus 23 p. 541

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ἐκ ποίων ὁ πατήρ σε δρυῶν τέτμηκεν, Ἀρίστων,
ἢ ποίων σε μύλου κόψατο λατομιῶν;
ἦ γὰρ ἀπὸ δρυὸς ἐσσὶ παλαιφάτου ἢ ἀπὸ πέτρης
ὀρχηστής, Νιόβης ἔμπνοον ἀρχέτυπον

ὥστε με θαυμάζοντα λέγειν, ὅτι
καὶ σύ τι Λητοῖ

ἤρισας: οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἦς αὐτομάτως λίθινος.

— Paton edition

From what oak-trees did your father cut you, Aristo, or from what mill-stone quarry did he hew you ? For indeed you are a dancer "made of a venerable tree or of stone,” the living original of Niobe ; so that I wonder and say: "You, too, must have had some quarrel with Leto, or else you would not have been naturally made of stone.”

— Paton edition

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