Social Commentaries
Book XI, 421
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
If you speak ill of me in my absence you do me no injury; but if you speak well of me in my presence, know that you are speaking ill of me.
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