Social Commentaries
Book XI, 258
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Autus the boxer dedicates to the Lord of Pisa his skull, having collected the bones one by one. And if he escapes from Nemea, Lord Zeus, he will perchance dedicate to thee also the vertebrae he still has left.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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