Living
Book X, 64
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Where, I ask, is that vast insolence? And where have they suddenly departed, the crowds of flatterers who used to walk by your side? Now you are gone a portable coffin and not, as I suppose, a stone one, to exile far from the city, and Fortune has made those whom you formerly pitied judges to condemn you. Great thanks to thee, Fortune, performer of glorious deeds, for that thou ever mockest all alike, and we have that to amuse us.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s heading: “On a former Magistrate”.
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