Social Commentaries
Book XIV, 202 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
A monkey cunning to avoid darts hurled at me, I should be a "long-tailed ape" had I a tail.
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