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on:    23 June 2000

Dinner Chez Apelles
Ammianus

 

The Ohio Review, No. 58 - 2000:  Translations from the Greek Anthology
Translation by Brooks Haxton
Athens, OH: The Ohio Review

He set before his dinner guests a meadow, sacrificed,
as if he meant to feed, instead of neighbors, goats,
with heaps of dandelions, chicory, asparagus, rue,
leeks, green onions, mint, arugula half gone to seed,
and who knew what. I grazed at first on lupine sprouts,
but thinking that the next course might be hay, I left.


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