Social Commentaries
Book XI, 146
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
I sent Flaccus the rhetor a present of seven solecisms and received back five times two hundred. And “Now,” he says, “I send you these by the hundred, but in future when I get to Cyprus? I will send them by the bushel.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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