{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg7000.tlg001.local003","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg7000.tlg001.local003/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.local003","title":"Ἀνθολογία, Volume II","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA","authorityName":"ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg7000-anthologia-graeca/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg7000-anthologia-graeca/","editors":["William Roger Paton"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"The Greek Anthology","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1917","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities","Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/greekanthology02newyuoft/page/n13/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Anthologia Graeca. Ἀνθολογία, Volume II. ed. William Roger Paton. The Greek Anthology, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1917. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.local003","excerpt":"Αλκαιου Μεσσηνιου ἡρώων τὸν ἀοιδὸν Ἴῳ ἔνι παῖδες Ὅμηρον ἤκαχον, ἐκ Μουσέων γρῖφον ὑφηνάμενοι· νέκταρι δʼ εἰνάλιαι Νηρηίδες ἐχρίσαντο, καὶ νέκυν ἀκταίῃ θῆκαν ὑπὸ σπιλάδι, ὅττι Θέτιν κύδηνε καὶ υἱέα, καὶ μόθον ἄλλων ἡρώων, Ἰθακοῦ τʼ ἔργματα Λαρτιάδεω. ὀλβίστη νήσων πόντῳ Ἴος, ὅττι κέκευθε βαιὴ Μουσάων ἀστέρα καὶ Χαρίτων. τὰν μερόπων Πειθώ, τὸ μέγα στόμα, τὰν ἴσα Μούσαις φθεγξαμέναν κεφαλάν, ὦ ξένε, Μαιονίδεω ἅδʼ ἔλαχον νασῖτις Ἴου σπιλάς· οὐ γὰρ ἐν ἄλλᾳ ἱερόν, ἀλλʼ ἐν ἐμοί, πνεῦμα θανὼν ἔλιπεν, ᾧ νεῦμα Κρονίδαο τὸ παγκρατές, ᾦ καὶ Ὄλυμπον καὶ τὰν Αἴαντος ναύμαχον εἶπε βίαν, καὶ τὸν Ἀχιλλείοις Φαρσαλίσιν Ἕκτορα, πώλοις ὀστέα Δαρδανικῷ δρυπτόμενον πεδίῳ. εἰ δʼ ὀλίγα κρύπτω τὸν ταλίκον, ἴσθʼ ὅτι κεύθει καὶ Θέτιδος γαμέταν ἁ βραχύβωλος Ἴκος. εἰ καὶ βαιὸς ὁ τύμβος, ὁδοιπόρε, μή με παρέλθῃς, ἀλλὰ κατασπείσας, ἶσα θεοῖσι σέβου· τὸν γὰρ Πιερίδεσσι τετιμένον ἔξοχα Μούσαις ποιητὴν ἐπέων θεῖον…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg7000.tlg001.local003/#tlg7000-tlg001-local003-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg7000.tlg001.local003/#tlg7000-tlg001-local003-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg7000.tlg001.local003/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg7000.tlg001.local003.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg7000/tlg001/local003.json.gz"}}