Social Commentaries
Book XI, 95
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
A small mouse finding little Macron asleep one summer’s day dragged him into its hole by his foot. But he in the hole, though unarmed, strangled the mouse and said, “ Father Zeus, thou hast a second Heracles.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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