Descriptions
On a Bath in Byzantium
606-640 are all Inscriptions on Baths
νῦν ἔγνων, Κυθέρεια, πόθεν νίκησας ἀγῶνα,
τὴν πρὶν Ἀλεξάνδρου ψῆφον ὑφαρπαμένη.
ἐνθάδε γὰρ τέγγουσα τεὸν δέμας, εὗρες ἐλέγξαι
Ἥρην Ἰναχίοις χεύμασι λουσαμένην.νίκησεν τὸ λοετρὸν ἔοικε δὲ τοῦτο βοώσῃ
— Paton edition
Παλλάς: ἐνικήθην ὕδασιν, οὐ Παφίῃ.
Now I know, Cytherea, how thou didst conquer
— Paton edition
in the contest, stealing the vote of Alexander. It
was here thou didst dip thy body, and so didst find
means to overcome Hera who had bathed in the
streams of Inachus.¹ It was the bath that won, and
I fancy Pallas cried out thus : " I was conquered by
the water, not by the Paphian."
Now I know, Cytherea, how thou didst conquer
— Paton edition
in the contest, stealing the vote of Alexander. It
was here thou didst dip thy body, and so didst find
means to overcome Hera who had bathed in the
streams of Inachus.¹ It was the bath that won, and
I fancy Pallas cried out thus : " I was conquered by
the water, not by the Paphian."
νῦν ἔγνων, Κυθέρεια, πόθεν νίκησας ἀγῶνα,
τὴν πρὶν Ἀλεξάνδρου ψῆφον ὑφαρπαμένη.
ἐνθάδε γὰρ τέγγουσα τεὸν δέμας, εὗρες ἐλέγξαι
Ἥρην Ἰναχίοις χεύμασι λουσαμένην.νίκησεν τὸ λοετρὸν ἔοικε δὲ τοῦτο βοώσῃ
— Paton edition
Παλλάς: ἐνικήθην ὕδασιν, οὐ Παφίῃ.
Epigram 9.619: Creation of Scholium 9.619.1 by “epheline”
Epigram 9.619: Addition of Manuscript 7714 by “epheline”
Epigram 9.619: First revision
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