Social Commentaries
Book XI, 272
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
They denied their manhood and did not become women, nor were they born men, as they have suffered what women do; nor are they women, since a man’s nature was theirs. They are men to women and women to men.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Paton’s heading: “On Cinaedi”.
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