Social Commentaries
Book XI, 198
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
“The nose’s Hermocrates ”—for if we say “ Hermocrates’ nose,” we give long things to little ones.
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Codex Note
Ascribed to Theodorus.
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