Social Commentaries
Book XI, 236
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
All Cilicians are bad men, but among the Cilicians the only good man is Cinyras, and Cinyras is a Cilician.
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