Living
Book X, 103
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
Neither look into nor pass by (the place where they sell scarce delicacies ?). Now be off to the tripe-stall to spend a drachma. One fig too at times may cost a drachma, but if you wait, it will buy you a thousand. Time is the poor man’s god.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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