Social Commentaries
Book XI, 290
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
One holding in his fingers a reckoning counter for the fingers went by the counter-vote of death in double-quick time to Hades. The counter now lives bereaved of the reckoner, whose soul is rapidly driven from hence.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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