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To Demeter and the Seasons, Zonas



The Greek Anthology

Introduction


CHAPTER II
PRAYERS AND DEDICATIONS

Chapter II Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V

XXXI
TO DEMETER AND THE SEASONS
ZONAS

To Demeter of the winnowing-fan and the Seasons whose feet are in the furrows Heronax lays here from the poverty of a small tilth their share of ears from the threshing-floor, and these mixed seeds of pulse on a slabbed table, the least of a little; for no great inheritance is this he has gotten him, here on the barren hill.

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