Living
Book IX, 140
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
A serving-man stood in the porch of Helicon bearing on his shoulders a brazen-footed stool he had seized, and would not give it to me, tired as I was, to sit on and recite. ‘Therefore ingenious necessity sharpened my wit to deal with the situation.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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