Social Commentaries
Book XI, 183
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Heliodorus, hearing that Saturn troubles nativities, carried off the golden Saturn at night from the temple, saying: “Experience by fact, my Lord, which of us anticipated the other in working evil, and thou shalt know which of us is the Saturn of which. ‘Who works evil for another, works it for his own heart.’ Fetch me a good price and portend what thou wilt by thy rising.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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