Social Commentaries
Book XI, 320
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Philostratus loved Antigone. He was poorer by five cubits, poor fellow, than Irus. The cold, however, taught him a sweet remedy ; for tucking up his knees (with antza gonata) he slept so, stranger, with Antigone.
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