Living
Book IX, 113
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
The bugs fed on me with gusto till they were disgusted, but I myself laboured till I was disgusted, dislodging the bugs.
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