Social Commentaries
Book XI, 86
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
No one knows if Pericles ran or sat in the stadion race. Marvellous slowness! “The noise of the barrier’s fall was in our ears” and another was receiving the crown and Pericles had not advanced an inch.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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