Social Commentaries
Book XI, 326
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Beard and rough hair on the thighs, how quickly time changes all! Connichus, is this what you have become? Did I not say, “ Be not in all things harsh and discourteous; Beauty has its own Avenging Deities”? So you have come into the pen, proud youth ; we know that you wish for it now; but then, too, you might have had sense.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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