Mythology & Folklore
Book IX, 169
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The wrath of Achilles was the cause of pernicious poverty to me too, since I adopted the profession of a grammarian. Would that that “wrath” had killed me with the Greeks, before the bitter hunger of grammar had put an end to me. But all to let Agamemnon run away with Briseis, and Paris with Helen, I have become poor.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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