Social Commentaries
Book XI, 117
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
The physician Capito anointed Chryses’ eyes then when he could see a high tower from a mile off and aman from a furlong and a quail from ten yards and a louse even from a foot. Now from a furlong he cannot see the town and from two hundred feet cannot see that the lighthouse is alight ; he scarcely sees a horse from half a foot off and as for the quail he once saw, he can’t even see a large ostrich. If he manages to give him another dose, he won’t ever after be able to see even an elephant standing close to him.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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