Religion
Book VI, 295
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Asconpas, when he came in for an exciseman’s lickerish sop hung up here to the Muses the implements of his penury: his penknife, the sponge he used to hire to wipe his Cnidian pens, the ruler for marking off the margins, his paper-weight that marks the place (?), his ink-horn, his compasses that draw circles, his pumice for smoothing, and his blue spectacles that give sweet light.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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