Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 42 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Ip any one wish to vie with you in gifts, let him venture, Castricus, in poetry too. I am poorly furnished in both, and prepared to be surpassed; hence repose and unbroken quiet are my delight. Why then, you ask, did I send you such bad poems? Think you no man has given apples to Alcinous P1
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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