Social Commentaries
Book XI, 386
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Yesterday a certain man seeing Victory in town sour-faced, said: “Goddess Victory, what has befallen thee, then?” But she, lamenting and finding fault with the decision, said: “ Dost thou alone not know it? I have been given to Patricius.” So Victory, too, was in deep grief at being illegally caught by the sailor Patricius as if she were a breeze.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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