Social Commentaries
Book XI, 78
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Your head, Apollophanes, has become a sieve, or the lower edge of a worm-eaten book, all exactly like ant-holes, crooked and straight, or musical notes Lydian and Phrygian. But go on boxing without fear ; for even if you are struck on the head you will have the marks you have—you can’t have more.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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