Social Commentaries
Book XI, 383
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
So for mokes, too, there is sinister and good Fortune, and Saturn rules the nativities of beasts also; for ever since evil time befel this donkey, it has become a grammarian’s instead of being in the alabarch’s palace. But bear it patiently henceforth, donkey; for grammarians crithe (barley) has no end, but is called only cri.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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