Social Commentaries
Book XI, 172
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Autus the miser drowned in the sea a child that was born to him, reckoning how much it would cost him if he kept it.
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