Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 72 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
A thief of too notorious rapacity, a Cilician, was minded to plunder a garden; but in the immense garden was nothing, Fabullus, but a marble Priapus. Being loth to return with empty hands, the Cilician carried off' Priapus himself!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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