Social Commentaries
Book XI, 319
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
If you bring ten sacks of charcoal you, too, will be a citizen, and if you bring a pig, also, you will be % These are puns that cannot be reproduced. Triptolemus himself, and to Heraclides your introducer must be given either some cabbage castocks, or lentils, or snails. Have these with you and call yourself Erechtheus, Cecrops, Codrus, whoever you like ; no one minds a rap about it.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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