Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 41 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Too ea:er to indulj e his charge, and proud of the fame and Witness of his herd, their keeper Amyntas broke the boughs that yielded to his weight, and the down-streaming foHage, himself following the spoil he shook to earth. His sire forbade the ill-omened tree survive such dread ruin, and condemned the fatal timber to the funeral pyre. Lygdus,'- let neighbour lollas have his swine fat: 'tis enough for me that you keep well the reckoning of my herd.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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