Social Commentaries
Book XI, 206
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
So may you be able, Dionysius, to digest all these things you are eating, but for custom’s sake give us something to eat here too. I was invited also, and Publius served some of these things for me too to taste, and my portion too is on the board. Unless, seeing that I am thin, you think I was ill when I sat down to table, and so watch me thus in case I eat something unnoticed by you.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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