Social Commentaries
Book XI, 155
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
“This solid adamant of virtue, this rebuker of everyone, this fighter with the cold, with his long beard, has been caught.” “ At what?” “It is not proper to say at what, but he was caught doing things that foul-mouthed people do.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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