Social Commentaries
Book XI, 202
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
After burying his old woman, Moschus very sensibly married a young girl, his first wife’s whole dowry remaining intact in his house. Moschus deserves to be praised for his good sense, in that he alone knows whom to sleep with and from whom to inherit.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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