Social Commentaries
Book XI, 392
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Adrastus the rhetor, seating himself on the back of a winged ant, spoke as follows: “Fly, O Pegasus, thou hast thy Bellerophon.” Yes indeed the most doughty of heroes, a half-dead skeleton?
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