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Book XIV, 127
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Demochares lived for a quarter of his whole life as a boy, for a fifth part of it as a young man, and for a third as a man, and when he reached grey old age he lived thirteen years more on the threshold of eld.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Solution: He lived 15 years as a boy, 12 as a young man, 20 as a man, and 13 years as an old man; in all 60.
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