Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 118
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Myrrto once picked apples and divided them among her friends; she gave the fifth part to Chrysis, the fourth to Hero, the nineteenth to Psamathe, and the tenth to Cleopatra, but she presented the twentieth part to Parthenope and gave only twelve to Evadne. Of the whole number a hundred and twenty fell to herself.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Solution: 380.
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