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Death of a Bird-Catcher
Anthologia Palatina 7.171 = Mnasalces of Sicyon (3rd cent. BCE)
Here, too, the sacred bird will rest his swift wing,
Perched atop this sweet plane-tree:
For Poemandrus the Melian has died – he comes no longer
After smearing his fowling-twigs with bird-lime.
Ἀμπαύσει καὶ τῇδε θοὸν πτερὸν ἱερὸς ὄρνις,
τᾶσδ᾽ ὑπὲρ ἁδείας ἑζόμενος πλατάνου:
ὤλετο γὰρ Ποίμανδρος ὁ Μάλιος, οὐδ᾽ ἔτι νεῖται
ἰξὸν ἐπ᾽ ἀγρευταῖς χευάμενος καλάμοις.
The Bird-Catchers, François Boucher, 1748