Social Commentaries
Book XI, 129
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
A PorT coming to the Isthmian games to the contest, when he found other poets there said he had paristhmia (mumps). He is going to start off for the Pythian games, and if he finds poets there again he can’t say he has parapythia as well.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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