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Posidippus A&B. 14, ecphrasis on a gemstone
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English Well did the craftsman carve Pegasus, the horse, in mist-blue jasper, with hand and with mind alike. Bellerophon was indeed hurled down into the Alerian plain of the Cilicians, but this colt mounted up into the dark blue sky. To show this, he fashioned the horse still unyoked, still trembling at the bit, in this heavenly stone. Note: Jasper is alternatively translated as lapis. |
Hellenistic Epic-Ionic Greek (?) εὖ τὸν Πήγαςον ἵππον ἐπ’ ἠερόεςςαν ἴαςπιν χεῖρά τε καὶ κατὰ νοῦν ἔγλυφ’ ὁ χειροτέχνης· Βε̣λ̣λ̣ε̣[ρ]ο̣φό̣ν̣της μὲ‹ν› γὰρ Ἀλή{ν}ϊον εἰς Κιλίκ̣ω̣ν γῆν ἤριφ’, ὁ δ’ εἰς κυανῆν ἠέρα πῶλος ἔβη, [ο]ὕ̣ν̣εκ’ ἀη̣νιόχητον ἔτι τρομέοντα χαλινοῖ̣ς __ [ἵ]π̣π̣[ον ἐν] αἰθερίωι τῶιδ’ ἐτύπως‹ε› λίθωι. |