Living
Book IX, 413
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The terebinth island has few vineyards, being small, but is all flat and not rugged. The islands near it are large and broad, but for the most part rough, and superior in this only, their size. We compete for crops, not for furlongs, just as the cornfields of Egypt take no count of the sands of Libya.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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