Social Commentaries
Book XI, 162
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
One came to ask the prophet Olympicus if he should take ship for Rhodes and how to sail there safely. And the prophet said, “First have a new ship and don’t start in winter, but in summer. If you do this you will go there and back, unless a pirate catches you at sea.”’
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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