Social Commentaries
Book XI, 293
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
O.Olympius promised me a horse, but brought me a tail from which hung a horse at its last gasp.
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