Social Commentaries
Book XI, 267
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
You, Mathematician, don’t require a measuring rod, and it is no concern of yours, for you have a nose three cubits long which no one grudges you.
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