Arts & Sciences
The Poor Scholar (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Arts & Sciences
O mice, if you are come after bread, go to another cupboard (for we live in a tiny cottage) where you will feed daintily on rich cheese and dried raisins, and make an abundant supper off the scraps; but if you sharpen your teeth again on my books and come in with your graceless rioting, you shall howl for it.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Cite this poem
MLA
Ariston. “The Poor Scholar (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ariston/0/.
Chicago
Ariston. “The Poor Scholar (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ariston/0/.