Social Commentaries
Book XI, 253
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
From what oak-trees did your father cut you, Aristo, or from what mill-stone quarry did he hew you? For indeed you are a dancer “ made of a venerable tree or of stone,” the living original of Niobe; so that I wonder and say: “You, too, must have had some quarrel with Leto, or else you would not have been naturally made of stone.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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