Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 120
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
The walnut-tree was loaded with many nuts, but now someone has suddenly stripped it. But what does he say? “Parthenopea had from me the fifth part of the nuts, to Philinna fell the eighth part, Aganippe had the fourth, and Orithyia rejoices in the seventh, while Eurynome plucked the sixth part of the nuts. The three Graces divided a hundred and six, and the Muses got nine times nine from me. The remaining seven you will find still attached to the farthest branches.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Solution: There were 1680 nuts.
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