Social Commentaries
Book XI, 291
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
What good do you do to the city by writing verses, getting so much gold for your slanders, selling iambic verses as a shopman sells oil?
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