Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 12 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
That Masclion on his pole-supporting brow proudly bears a nodding weight, or huge Ninus with all the strength of his arms lifts seven boys or eight, does not seem to me a difficult feat, when on a single finger, this one or that, my Stella carries ten maids.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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