Page:The Greek Anthology, Vol. 1.djvu/113

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

BOOK III

THE CYZICENE EPIGRAMS

Here we have the contemporary inscribed verses on a monument at Cyzicus erected by the brothers Attalus and Eumenes to the memory of their mother Apollonis, to whom they are known to have been deeply devoted. The reliefs represented examples of filial devotion in mythical history.