Social Commentaries
Book XI, 370
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
The mirror does not speak, but I will expose you who daub your counterfeit beauty with rouge. Sweetly-red Pindar, too, once censuring this, said that “Water is best,’ water the greatest enemy of rouge.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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