Social Commentaries
Book XI, 251
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
A stone-deaf man went to law with another stone-deaf man, and the judge was much deafer than the pair of them. One of them contended that the other owed him five months’ rent, and the other said that his opponent had ground corn at night. Says the judge, looking at them: “ Why are you quarrelling? She is your mother; you must both maintain her.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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