Living
Book XI, 4
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
A certain man, having married a woman who is complaisant to his neighbour only, snores and feeds. That was the way to get a living easily—not to go to sea, not to dig, but to snore off one’s dinner with a comfortable stomach, fattened richly at the expense of another.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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