Social Commentaries
Book XI, 85
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Marcus once running in armour, went on until it was midnight, so that the course was closed on all sides ; for the public servants all thought that he was one of the honorary stone statues of men in armour set up there. What happened? Why next year they opened, and Marcus came in, but a whole stadion behind.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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