Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 7 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Why, Hyllus boy, have you denied to-day what yesterday you gave, hard so suddenly who erewhile were gentle? But now you plead your beard, and your years, and hair: O night, how long thou art, one night that makest an old man! Why do you laugh at me? Hyllus, who yesterday were boy, tell me how you are man to-day?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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