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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Fragment of a Scolion

By Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.)

From a careful study of Simonides by John Sterling (Westminster Review, 1838)

LIKE a reinless courser’s bound

Or an Amyclean hound,

Chase thou with wheeling footstep

the song’s meandering sound.