Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 251
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Page-eater, the Muses’ bitterest foe, lurking destroyer, ever feeding on thy thefts from learning, why, black bookworm, dost thou lie concealed among the sacred utterances, producing the image of envy ? Away from the Muses, far away! Convey not even by the sight of thee the suspicion of how they must suffer from ill-will.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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