Social Commentaries
Book XI, 82
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Charmus in Arcadia in the long race with five others came in (wonderful to say, but it is a fact) seventh. “As there were six,’ you will probably say, “how seventh?” A friend of his came in his overcoat calling out “Go it, Charmus,” so that thus he ran in seventh and if he had had five more friends, Zoilus, he would have come in twelfth.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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