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Book IX, 94
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Tynnichus once caught an octopus and threw it from the sea on to the land, fearing to be enchained by the creature’s tentacles. But it fell on and twined itself round a sleeping hare that, poor thing, had just escaped from the hounds. The captive became captor, and Tynnichus threw the octopus back alive into the sea, taking the hare as its ransom.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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