Social Commentaries
Book XI, 96
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
The birds of Stymphalus vexed not so the Arcadians, as those dead thrushes vexed me with their dry bones, very harpies, ten of them, a dry drachma’s-worth. Out on you, wretched creatures, true bats of the fields.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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