Epigram 9.628 — Anthologia Graeca

URN

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:9.628

Created on

April 20, 2021

None

Updated on

June 10, 2021

Descriptions

On the Public Bath at Alexandria called the Horse

606-640 are all Inscriptions on Baths

ἵππον ἐϋρρείτην χρονίᾐ μάστιγι δαμέντα
χρυσείῳ πολύολβος ἄναξ ἤγειρε χαλινῷ.
— Paton edition

Our blessed sovereign aroused with a golden bit
the fair-flowing Horse which long scourging had
laid low.¹
— Paton edition

Paton Edition: The meaning is that the Emperor spent money on restoring the bath.

[2023-02-25 20:29 UTC] Epigram 9.628: Addition of Manuscript 7734 by “epheline”

[2021-11-21 22:03 UTC] Epigram 9.628: First revision