Social Commentaries
Book XI, 124
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
A. Stranger, what dost thou seek to know? B. Who are here in earth under these tombs? A. All those whom Zopyrus robbed of the sweet day-light, Damis, Aristoteles, Demetrius, Arcesilaus, Sostratus, and the next ones so far as Paraetonium. For with a wooden herald’s staff and counterfeit sandals,” like Hermes, he leads down his patients to Hell.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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