Social Commentaries
Book XI, 244
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
You bought a brass boiler, Heliodorus, colder than Thracian Boreas. Don’t blow the fire, don’t put yourself out; it is in vain you stir up the smoke. What you bought was a brass wine-cooler for summer.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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