Social Commentaries
Book XI, 205
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Eutychides when he came to supper, Dionysius, did not leave Aulus a single scrap, but handed everything to his servant behind him, and now Eutychides has a great supper in his house, and Aulus, not invited, sits eating dry bread.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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