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Book IX, 256
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
I rnoucur that half of me was still alive, and that half produced one single apple on the highest branch. But the brute that ravages fruit-trees, the hairy-backed caterpillar, envied me even the one, and ate it up. Envy’s eyes are set on great wealth, but the creature who lays waste a little substance I must call worse even than Envy’s self.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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