Social Commentaries
Book XI, 166
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
All say you are rich, but I say you are poor, for, Apollophanes, their use is the proof of riches. If you take your share of them, they are yours, but if you sayy them for your heirs, they are already someone else’s.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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