Social Commentaries
Book XI, 196
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Biro, with a face three times worse than a monkey’s, enough to make even Hecate hang herself for envy if she saw it, says, “I am chaste, Lucilius, and sleep alone ;” for perhaps she is ashamed of saying “I am a virgin.” But may whoever hates me marry such a horror and have children of similar chastity.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Lucillius. “Book XI, 196.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lucillius/74/.
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