Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 116
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Mother, why dost thou pursue me with blows on account of the walnuts? Pretty girls divided them all among themselves. For Melission took two-sevenths of them from me, and Titane took the twelfth. Playful Astyoche and Philinna have the sixth and third. Thetis seized and carried off twenty, and Thisbe twelve, and look there at Glauce smiling sweetly with eleven in her hand. This one nut is all that is left to me.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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