Social Commentaries
Book XI, 170
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Philo the miser weeps not because he is dying, but because he paid thirty pounds for his coffin, Let him off this, and as there is room in it, put one of his many little children into it besides.
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