Social Commentaries
Book XI, 212
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
I ordered you, Diodorus, to paint a pretty child, but you produce a child strange to me, putting a dog’s head on his shoulders, so that I weep to think how my Zopyrion was born to me by Hecuba. And finally I, Erasistratus the butcher, have got for six drachmae a son Anubis from the shrines of Isis.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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