Homer, Homer’s Epigrams, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Translator), 10

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Another sort of pine shall bear a better fruit¹

than you upon the heights of furrowed, windy Ida.

For there shall mortal men get the iron that Ares loves

so soon as the Cebrenians shall hold the land.

Homer’s Epigrams. Homer. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Translator). Medford, MA. 2019.

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Current edition Perseus

Epigrams (English) (Homer. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard), editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.)

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Ὁμήρου ἐπιγράμματα Perseus (Homer. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard), editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.) — 10 focus

Ἄλλη τίς σευ πεύκη ἀμείνονα καρπὸν ἵησιν

Ἴδης ἐν κορυφῇσι πολυπτύχου ἠνεμοέσσης,

ἔνθα σίδηρος Ἄρηος ἐπιχθονίοισι βροτοῖσιν

ἔσσεται, εὖτ’ ἄν μιν Κεβρήνιοι ἄνδρες ἔχωσι.

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Homer’s Epigrams

1. The better fruit is apparently the iron smelted out in fires of pine-wood.

Homer Homer’s Epigrams 10

Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Translator)

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