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Book XI, 322

by Antiphanes of Macedonia Augustan age (Paton’s date)

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)

Social Commentaries

Idly curious race of grammarians, ye who dig up by the roots the poetry of others; unhappy book-worms that walk on thorns, defilers of the great, proud of your Erinna, bitter and dry dogs set on by Callimachus, bane of poets, darkness to little beginners, away with you, bugs that secretly bite the eloquent.

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

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