Living
Book IX, 395
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
Odysseus said “nothing is sweeter than a man’s fatherland,” for in Circe’s isle he never ate cheese-cake. If he had seen even the smoke curling up from that, he would have sent ten Penelopes to the deuce.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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