Living
Book IX, 487
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
You served me the food of fig-fattened pigs from Cyprus, dry and thirst-provoking. But when you find me sufficiently fig-fattened, either kill me at once or quench my thirst with Cyprian wine.
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Alexandria, Palladas of. “Book IX, 487.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/palladas/46/.
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