Social Commentaries
Book XI, 345
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Metrophanes, swan-faced, shock-headed, lovely stork, shaking your head this way and that like a crane’s, you drag your long hood over the ground.
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