Social Commentaries
Book XI, 405
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Crook-Nosed Nicon has an admirable nose for wine, but he can’t tell quickly what it is like, for scarcely in three summer hours does he smell it himself, since his nose is two hundred cubits long. O what a huge nose! When he crosses a river he often catches little fish with it.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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