Social Commentaries
Book XI, 161
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Onesimus the boxer came to the prophet Olympus wishing to learn if he were going to live to old age. And he said, “ Yes, if you give up the ring now, but if you go on boxing, Saturn is your horoscope.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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