Friday, 27 May 2022

Two fragmentary dedications

These poems too are from Hansen's Carmina Epigraphica Graeca. I enjoy their fragmentary quality. The first evidently celebrated a victory at the Isthmian Games; the second is a mystery to me and I quite like it that way.

810 (Corinth, fourth century)
 
Of Corinth (lord?) . . .
Set up this chariot as offering . . .
And placed it . . .
In lasting memory . . .

875 (Lesbos, fourth century?)
 
This is Poseidon’s . . .
And decorates Apollo’s . . .
And temple; but the city . . .
In payment for your artistry . . .


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