Social Commentaries
Book XI, 283
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Many people say many things, but yet they cannot express in words all the currents of your vices. But there is one strange and incredible thing I marvelled at in you: how, while you were stealing, you had tears ready to hand. Coming from the land of Chalcis he deprived our city of brass, stealing and stealing with profitable tears.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s heading: “On Demonicus the Prefect”.
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