Friday, February 23, 2024
Man's Best Friend
Greek Anthology 6.176 (by Macedonius the Consul; my translation):
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The dog, the sack, and the barbed spearTerracotta relief of Pan with dog (4th century BC) from the Kabeirion, Thebes, at Athens, National Archaeological Museum (number 10400), in Theodora Kopestonsky, "The Greek Cult of The Nymphs at Corinth," Hesperia 85.4 (October-December, 2016) 711-777 (p. 756, fig. 25):
I dedicate to Pan and the tree nymphs,
but I will take the dog back alive to my hut,
to have a companion sharing in my dry morsels.
τὸν κύνα, τὰν πήραν τε καὶ ἀγκυλόδοντα σίγυνον,
Πανί τε καὶ Νύμφαις ἀντίθεμαι Δρυάσιν·
τὸν κύνα δὲ ζώοντα πάλιν ποτὶ ταὔλιον ἄξω,
ξηρὰς εἰς ἀκόλους ξυνὸν ἔχειν ἕταρον.
