Social Commentaries
Book XI, 307
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Your son is called Eros and your wife Aphrodite, and so, blacksmith, it is quite fair you should have a lame leg.
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