Social Commentaries
Book XI, 391
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Asclepiades the miser saw a mouse in his house and said: “ My dearest mouse, what business have you here with me?” And the mouse said, smiling sweetly: “Fear nothing, my friend, I do not seek board with you, but residence.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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