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For a Tripod Erected by Damoteles to Bacchus

by Theocritus

Theocritus

The precentor Damoteles, Bacchus, exalts
Your tripod, and, sweetest of deities, you.
He was champion of men, if his boyhood had faults;
And he ever loved honour and seemliness too.




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