Social Commentaries
Book XI, 379
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
No one has the courage to look on your grinders so that none approach your house, for if you always have the famine of Erysichthon himself you will even perhaps devour the friend you invite. Your halls will never see me enter them, for I am not going there to be kept for your belly. But if I ever do go to your house it was no great prowess of Ulysses to face the jaws of Scylla, Rather shall I be much more “all-daring” than he, if I manage to get past you who are no less fearful than the heart-chilling Cyclops.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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