Social Commentaries
Book XI, 176
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
As he carried off the winged Hermes, the servant of the gods, the Lord of the Arcadians, the cattle-raider, who stood here as curator of this gymnasium, Aulus the night-thief said, “ Many pupils are cleverer than their teachers.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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