Social Commentaries
Book XI, 285
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
We marvelled at another strange, effeminate characteristic. He wept while stealing, pitying those he was robbing; he who, while robbing, observed ceremonial purity, and while thus affecting purity went on despoiling, a man with nothing clean about him, not even his person free of dirt. And consequently was ‘incapable of doing any mischief.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s heading: “On the Same”.
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