Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 173
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The beginning of grammar ! is a curse in five lines. The first has the word “wrath,” the second “pernicious,” and after that “many woes” of the Greeks ; the third “leads down souls to Hades”; to the fourth belong “spoil” and “dogs”; to the fifth “birds” of ill-omen and the “anger of Zeus.” How, then, can a grammarian avoid having many sorrows after five curses and five cases (falls) ?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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