Social Commentaries
Book XI, 415
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Who, Mentorides, so obviously transferred your breech to the place where your mouth formerly was? For you break wind and do not breathe, and you speak from the lower storey. I wonder how your lower parts became your upper !
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ascribed to Antipater or Nicarchus.
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