Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 138
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Arts & Sciences
Nicarete, playing with five companions of her own age, gave a third of the nuts she had to Cleis, the quarter to Sappho, and the fifth to Aristodice, the twentieth and again the twelfth to Theano, and the twenty-fourth to Philinnis. Fifty nuts were left for Nicarete herself.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Solution: She had 1,200 nuts.
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