Social Commentaries
Book XI, 318
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Anticrates knew the constellations much better than Aratus, but could not tell his own nativity ; for he said he was in doubt whether he was born in the Ram or the Twins, or in both the Fishes. But it was clearly found to be in all three, for he is a tupper and a fool, and effeminate, and fond of fish.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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