Social Commentaries
Book XI, 104
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Poor Menestratus once, riding on an ant as if it were ‘an elephant, was suddenly stretched on his back. When it trod on him and he was breathing his last, “O Envy!” he exclaimed, “thus riding perished Phaethon too.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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