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Book XIV, 136
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Brick-makers, I am in a great hurry to erect this house. To-day is cloudless, and I do not require many more bricks, but I have all I want but three hundred. Thou alone in one day couldst make as many, but thy son left off working when he had finished two hundred, and thy son-in-law when he had made two hundred and fifty. Working all together, in how many hours can you make these?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Metrodorus. “Book XIV, 136.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/metrodorus/18/.
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