Jan 7, 2018
This Praxilla in her Hymns tells of Adonis being asked by Those Below what was best of the things he had left behind when he died. He replied thus: "The best thing I left was the light of the sun; second, the shining stars and the moon's orb; and then the cucumbers and apples and pears in season."
Zenobios, Proverbs 4.21; my translation
αὕτη ἡ Πράξιλλα τὸν Ἄδωνιν ἐν τοῖς Ὕμνοις εἰσάγει ἐρωτώμενον ὑπὸ τῶν κάτω τί κάλλιστον καταλιπὼν ἐλήλυθεν, ἐκεῖνον δὲ λέγοντα οὕτως·
κάλλιστον μὲν ἐγὼ λείπω φάος ἠελίοιο, δεύτερον ἄστρα φαεινὰ σεληναίης τε πρόσυπον ἠδὲ καὶ ὡραίους σικύους καὶ μῆλα καὶ ὄγχνας.
