Living
Book IX, 379
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
The proverb says, “Even a pig would bite a bad man;” but I say that we should not say that, but “Even a pig would bite simple unmeddlesome men, but even a snake would be afraid to bite a bad man.”
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