Living
Book X, 80
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
The life of men is the plaything of Fortune, a wretched life and a vagrant, tossed. between riches and poverty. Some whom she had cast down she casteth on high again like a ball, and others she brings down from the clouds to Hades.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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