Social Commentaries
Book XI, 287
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
He who is cursed with an ugly wife sees darkness when he lights the lamps in the evening.
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