Living
Book X, 99
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
I often, Sextus, weighed on the balance your kindness and insolence, and finding your kindness much the lightest and your abusive speech ever sinking the scale, I abandoned your friendship, unable to support any longer your most dishonouring insults.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Alexandria, Palladas of. “Book X, 99.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/palladas/102/.
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