Social Commentaries
Book XI, 132
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
I hate, Lord Caesar, those who are never pleased with any young writer, even if he says “Sing, O Goddess, the wrath,’ but if a man is not as old as Priam, if he is not half bald and not so very much bent, they say he can’t write abc. But, Zeus most high, if this really be so, wisdom visits but the ruptured.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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