Epigram 9.748 — Anthologia Graeca

URN

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:9.748

Created on

April 20, 2021

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Updated on

July 18, 2021

Descriptions

On Dionysus carved on an Amethyst

ἡ λίθος ἔστ᾽ ἀμέθυστος, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὁ πότης Διόνυσος:
ἢ νήφειν πείσῃ μ᾽, ἢ μαθέτω μεθύειν.
— Paton edition

The stone is amethyst,¹ but I am the toper
Dionysus. Either let it teach me to be sober, or
learn itself to get drunk.
— Paton edition

Scholium 9.748.1

Paton Edition: 1 i.e. "against drunkenness."

[2023-03-08 19:35 UTC] Epigram 9.748: Creation of Scholium 9.748.1 by “epheline”

[2023-03-08 19:35 UTC] Epigram 9.748: Addition of Manuscript 7988 by “epheline”

[2021-11-21 22:03 UTC] Epigram 9.748: First revision