Living
Book IX, 45
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
One man found the gold and the other lost it. He who found it threw it away, and he who did not find it hanged himself with the dismal halter.
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