Social Commentaries
Book XI, 140
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
To these praters, these verse-fighters of the supper table, these slippery dominies of Aristarchus’ school who care not for making a joke or drinking, but lie there playing infantile games with Nestor and Priam, cast me not literally “to be their prey and spoil.’? To-day I don’t sup on ‘Sing, O Goddess, the wrath.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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