Antipater of Sidon, Anthologia Palatina 7.413: Hipparchia compares herself to Atalanta

Antipater of Sidon, Anthologia Palatina 7.413: Hipparchia compares herself to Atalanta

2nd century BCE

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I, Hipparchia, chose not the tasks of amply-robed woman, but the manly life of the Cynics. Nor do tunics fastened with brooches and thick-soled slippers, and the hair-caul wet with ointment please me, but rather the wallet and its fellow-traveller the staff and the course double mantle suited to them, and a bed strewn on the ground. I shall have a greater name than that of Arcadian Atalanta by so much as wisdom is better than racing over the mountains.

W.R. Paton, The Greek Anthology, vol. 2, Books 7-8 (= Loeb Classical Library; 68), Cambridge, MA 1917.

Οὐχὶ βαθυστόλμων Ἱππαρχία ἔργα γυναικῶν,
τῶν δὲ Κυνῶν ἑλόμαν ῥωμαλέον βίοτον·
οὐδέ μοι ἀμπεχόναι περονήτιδες, οὐ βαθύπελμος
εὐμαρίς, οὐ λιπόων εὔαδε κεκρύφαλος·
οὐλὰς δὲ σκίπωνι συνέμπορος, ἅ τε συνῳδὸς
δίπλαξ, καὶ κοίτας βλῆμα χαμαιλεχέος.
ἄμμι δὲ Μαιναλίας κάρρων †ἄμιν Ἀταλάντας
τόσσον, ὅσον σοφία κρέσσον ὀριδρομίας.

W.R. Paton, The Greek Anthology, vol. 2, Books 7-8 (= Loeb Classical Library; 68), Cambridge, MA 1917.