Living
Book IX, 516
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
“Let every man ply his own trade,” indeed. Under the high Alps the shock-headed robbers, when they have a job in hand, thus avoid the watch-dogs. They grease themselves thickly with kidney-fat to deceive the dogs’ keen scent. It is more ready in devising evil than good, the Ligurian mind.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “Book IX, 516.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/38/.
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