Social Commentaries
Book IX, 310
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
A little mouse devoured some unfired gold-dust, the scrapings of the file’s iron teeth, lighter than the sands of Libya. It proved a heavy meal for him ; for his belly, trailing with the weight, made the swift creature slow-footed, and so he was caught and cut open, and the stolen treasure extracted from his inside. Even to brutes, gold, thou art the cause of evil.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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