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Book IX, 252
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Quickly the traveller, when he saw the pack of greedy wolves, leapt from the bank into the deep Nile. But they continued the chase through the water, each holding on by its teeth to another’s tail. A long bridge of wolves was formed over the stream, and the self-taught stratagem of the swimming beasts caught the man.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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