Social Commentaries
Book XI, 106
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Chaeremon caught by a slight breeze was floating in the air, much lighter than a straw. He would soon have been swept away through the air, if he had not caught his feet in a spider’s web and hung there on his back. Here he hung for five days and nights, and on the sixth day came down by a thread of the web.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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