Yes, and if oxen and horses or lions had hands, and could paint with their hands, and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and make their bodies in the image of their several kinds.
Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 – c. 479 BC) Greek philosopher, poet
Fragments, (Silloi/Satires) fr. 15 [tr. Burnet (1908)]
(Source)
Noted in Burnet as frag 15, RP 100. The original Greek can be seen here and here (I was unable to find a copyable version).
Other translations:But had the oxen or the lions hands,
Or could with hands depict a work like men,
Were beasts to draw the semblance of the gods,
The horses would them like to horses sketch,
To oxen, oxen, and their bodies make
Of such a shape as to themselves belongs.
[tr. Roberts/Donaldson (1885)]Yes, and if oxen or lions had hands, and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the form of each.
[tr. Burnet (1892); frag 6 (RP 83)]But if cattle or lions had hands, so as to paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, they would paint their gods and give them bodies in form hke their own — horses like horses, cattle like cattle. [tr. Fairbanks (1898)]But if horses or oxen or lions had hands
or could draw with their hands and accomplish such works as men,
horses would draw the figures of the gods as similar to horses, and the oxen as similar to oxen,
and they would make the bodies
of the sort which each of them had.
[tr. Lesher (1992); fr. 15; Clement 5.110]If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen to look like oxen, and each would make the gods’ bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.
[tr. McKirahan (1995)]But if cattle[, horses,] or lions had hands,
or were to write/draw with hands and to complete deeds, such as men [do],
on the one hand, horses like horses and, on the other hand, cattle [like] cattle,
would draw [the] forms of [the] gods and would make bodies (σώµατ᾽)
of such sorts as [the] sort of bodily frame (δέµας) they themselves also have.
[Source; fr B15]

