Social Commentaries
Book XI, 388
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
As long as you are unmarried, Numenius, everything in life seems to you the best of the best, but when a wife enters the house everything again in life seems to you at once the worst of the worst. “ But I marry for the sake of having children,” says he. You will have children, Numenius, if you have money, but a poor man does not even love his children.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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