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For a Statue of the Muses
by:
Theocritus
(3rd century B.C.)
translated by C. S. Calverley
To you this marble statue, maids divine,
Xenocles raised, one tribute unto nine.
Your votary all admit him: by this skill
He gat him fame: and you he honours still.
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