Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 78 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Phryx, a notorious tippler, was blind, Aulus, ot one eye, and blear-eyed in the other. Heras, his doctor, said to him: "Beware of drinking; if you drink wine you will not see at all." Phryx laughed, and said to his eye '"'Adieu." Immediately he orders eleven measures to be mixed for him, and frequently. Do you ask the result? Phryx drank a vintage, his eye venom.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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