Social Commentaries
Book XI, 402
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
May none of the gods, Erasistratus, create for me that luxury in which you riot, monstrously eating plagues of the stomach worse than famine, such as I wish the children of my enemies might eat. I would starve again even more than I used to starve rather than gorge myself with the luxuries of your table.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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