Social Commentaries
Book XI, 182
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
You are killing me, a pig but not your own, and ou call me “ piggie”’ (or “our own pig”), knowing well that I am not your own.
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Ascribed to Dionysius.
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