For already, sometime, I have been a boy and a girl, a shrub, a bird, and a silent fish in the sea.
ἤδη γάρ ποτ’ ἐγὼ γενόμην κοῦρός τε κόρη τε
θάμνος τ’ οἰωνός τε καὶ ἔξαλος ἔλλοπος ἰχθύς.
θάμνος τ’ οἰωνός τε καὶ ἔξαλος ἔλλοπος ἰχθύς.
Original text (Ancient Greek)
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Once on a time a youth was I, and I was a maiden/A bush, a bird, and a fish with scales that gleam in the ocean. | tr. Jane Ellen Harrison
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