Social Commentaries

Book XI, 437

by Aratus of Soli c. 315 – c. 240 BC

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

Social Commentaries

I lament for Diotimus, who sits on stones repeating Alpha and Beta to the children of Gargarus.

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