[92.] O’Hara renders as follows:
Gold is the son of Zeus,
Immortal, bright;
Nor moth nor worm may eat it,
Nor rust tarnish.
So are the Muse’s gifts
The offspring fair,
That merit from high heaven
Youth eternal.
[93.] These may be vases in the form of an astragalus or knuckle-bone, two or three of which in clay are to be seen in museums, or they may be bowls or cups with the bottom rounded like one end of a knuckle-bone. They might be bowls with a mid-boss in the form of a knuckle-bone. For such gold-bossed golden bowls as Pollux (VI, 98) mentions in the context of this quotation see the recently acquired beautiful gold bowl with a Corinthian inscription of about Sappho’s time in the Boston Museum, which, however, is probably a modern forgery. Cf. Bulletin, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, XX. 65 ff. (1922).