Social Commentaries
Book XI, 228
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
One man killed his mother, another his father, a third his brother, but Polianus all three, the first since Oedipus.
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