Social Commentaries
Book XI, 417
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Shake the acorns off another oak, Menesthion ; for I do not accept wrinkled apples past their season, but have ever desired fruit in its prime like myself; so why try to see a white crow?
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Codex Note
Paton’s heading: “On an Elderly Woman annoying a Young Man”.
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