Social Commentaries
Book XI, 407
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
As lean Menestratus was sitting in spring-time an ant came out and pulled him into a crevice; but a fly flew up and carried him off, just as the eagle carried Ganymede to the heavenly chamber of Zeus. He fell from the fly’s hands, but not even so did he light on the earth, but is hanging by his eyelids from a spider's web.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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