Social Commentaries
Book XI, 270
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
King, destroyer of the world, they set up this iron statue of thee as being much less precious than bronze, in return for the bloodshed, the fatal poverty and famine and wrath, by which thou destroyest all things owing to thy avarice.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s heading: “On a Statue of the Emperor Anastasius on the Euripus”.
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