Social Commentaries

Book XI, 181

by Ammianus 1st century AD (Paton’s date, queried)

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)

Social Commentaries

We all knew, Polemon, that your name was Antonius. How is it that three letters are suddenly missing ?

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