ἐκέλευον τὴν ῥοδωνίαν βλαστάνουσαν ἐκτίλλειν

From LSJ

Κύριε, σῶσον τὸν δοῦλον σου κτλ. → Lord, save your slave ... (mosaic inscription from 4th cent. church in the Negev)

Source

English > Greek (Woodhouse Quotes Reversed)

they bade him strip the rose garden of its buds