Social Commentaries
Book XI, 102
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Thin little Diodorus once in taking a thorn out made a hole in the needle with his foot.
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Ascribed to Ammianus or Nicarchus.
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