Two dedicatory epigrams from the Anthology

From book 6 of the Anthology. These 'anathematic' poems are written as if to accompany votive offerings, set up in temples to thank the god for ensuring safety or success. The first takes the perspective of a fisherman; the second, of a mercenary, thanking Apollo. Readers might well mentally place the second poem at the temple of Apollo in his aspect as patron of mercenaries, ‘Apollo Epicurius’, at Bassae in Arcadia.

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LEONIDAS
The curving hook, long rods, and horsehair line;
The baskets that hold fish; the wicker trap
Woven to catch them, that the netsmen found
To cage the wanderers beneath the sea;
Sharp trident, too, Poseidon’s weaponry;
The pair of oars from off his little boat.
These Diophantus, fisherman, presents
As tribute to the patron of his craft,
The relics of the trade he used to ply. 

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MNASALCAS
This arrow-pouring quiver, and this bow,
Phoebus, are hung as offerings to you
From Promachus. His feathered arrows, no:
Mortals hold those: they hold them in their hearts,
Murderous gifts to strangers in the fray.