Social Commentaries
Book XI, 393
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
There is no greater burden than a daughter, and ‘if, Euctemon, you think it is a light one, listen to me. You have a hydrocele and I have a daughter ; take her and give me a hundred hydroceles instead of one.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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