Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 64 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
The sirens, who brought on mariners jocund punishment, and alluring death, and cruel delight, from whom, when their song was heard, no man could of old rescue himself, the wily Ulixes is said to have escaped. I don't wonder; that I should wonder at, Cassianus, — if he had escaped from Canius and his anecdotes.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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