Social Commentaries
Book XI, 152
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
If you want, Paulus, to teach your son to be a rhetor like all these, don’t let him learn his letters.
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