Living
Book XI, 51
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
Enjoy the season of thy prime ; all things soon decline: one summer turns a kid into a shaggy he-goat.
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