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Book IX, 255
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Nerepy Aristides reckoned his possessions as great ; his one sheep was a flock, his one cow a herd. But he lost both ; a wolf killed the ewe, and the cow died in calving. So that the stock of his poor farm was gone, and the luckless man, noosing his neck in the strap of his wallet, perished by his shed that no longer echoed to the sound of bleating.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton: cp. No. 150.
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