Epigram 7.172

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Codex Palatinus 23 p. 232

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ὁ πρὶν ἐγὼ καὶ ψῆρα καὶ ἁρπάκτειραν ἐρύκων
σπέρματος, ὑψιπετῆ Βιστονίαν γέρανον,
ῥινοῦ χερμαστῆρος ἐΰστροφα κῶλα τιταίνων,
Ἀλκιμένης, πτανῶν εἶργον ἄπωθε νέφος:
καὶ μέ τις οὐτήτειρα παρὰ σφυρὰ διψὰς ἔχιδνα
σαρκὶ τὸν ἐκ γενύων πικρὸν ἐνεῖσα χόλον
ἠελίου χήρωσεν ἴδ᾽ ὡς τὰ κατ᾽ αἰθέρα λεύσσων
τοὐμ ποσὶν οὐκ ἐδάην πῆμα κυλινδόμενον.

— Paton edition

Io che lo storno e l'uccello vorace di semi sviavo,
la gru di Tracia dall'eccelso volo,
l'agili braccia tendendo del cuoio che fionda le pietre,
io che nembi stornai d'alati, Alcimene,
alla caviglia patii d'una vipera dipsade il morso:
m'istillò dalla bocca amaro tosco,
vedovo fui della luce. Guardando per aria - lo vedi?-
non scorsi il danno che strisciava ai piedi

— Pontani, Filippo Maria (1978-81) (ed.): Antologia Palatina, 4 vols., Torino.

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πρὶν ἐγὼ καὶ ψῆρα καὶ ἁρπάκτειραν ἐρύκων
σπέρματος , ὑψιπετῆ Βιστονίαν γέρανον ,
ῥινοῦ χερμαστῆρος ἐΰστροφα κῶλα τιταίνων ,
Ἀλκιμένης , πτανῶν εἶργον ἄπωθε νέφος :
καὶ μέ τις οὐτήτειρα παρὰ σφυρὰ διψὰς ἔχιδνα
σαρκὶ τὸν ἐκ γενύων πικρὸν ἐνεῖσα χόλον
ἠελίου χήρωσεν ἴδ ὡς τὰ κατ αἰθέρα λεύσσων
τοὐμ ποσὶν οὐκ ἐδάην πῆμα κυλινδόμενον .

I , Alcimenes , who used to protect the crops from
the starlings and that high - flying robber the Bistonian
crane , was swinging the pliant arms of my
leathern sling to keep the crowd of birds away ,
when a dipsas viper wounded me about the ankles ,
and injecting into my flesh the bitter bile from her
jaws robbed me of the sunlight . Look you how
gazing at what was in the air I noticed not the evil
that was creeping at my feet .

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