Social Commentaries
Book XI, 343
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Silvanus has two servants, Wine and Sleep ; he no longer loves either the Muses or his friends, but the one flowing copiously into his head charms him from bed, and the other keeps him in his bedroom snoring.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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