Nature
Book IX, 78
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Nature
Do not, master, find fault with me, the wild pear-tree, ever loaded with unripe fruit. For the pears which IJ ripen on my branches are pilfered by another than yourself, but the unripe ones remain hanging round their mother.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Paton: This and the two following are Isopsepha.
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