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Paean [on Peace] l. 16, in Stobaeus, Florilegium

— Bacchylides

Συμποσίων δ᾽ ἐρατῶν βρίθοντ᾽ ἀγυιαί,
παιδείοι θ᾽ ὕμνοι φλέγονται.

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Days steal away in Feasting and Delight, And Lovers spend in Serenades the Night. | Philip Ayres, 1687 | The streets are thronged with lovely men and young, And hymns in praise of boys like flames to heaven are flung. | J. A. Symonds, 1877 | Banquet and blithe carousal throng the ways, And the amorous hymn like fire in the air breaks forth in praise. | W. G. Headlam, 1907

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