Social Commentaries
Book XI, 360
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Now the general has become Hermanubis the dog, taking with him two brother Hermeses, stealers of silver, tied together with a rope, cold, prematurely dead demons of Tartarus. I know no place that accuses morals, but I say that morals accuse the place.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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