Epigram 11.404

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Codex Palatinus 23 p. 564

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οὐδέποτ᾽ εἰς πορθμεῖον ὁ κηλήτης Διόφαντος
ἐμβαίνει μέλλων εἰς τὸ πέραν ἀπίναι:
τῆς κήλης δ᾽ ἐπάνωθε τὰ φορτία πάντα τεθεικὼς
καὶ τὸν ὄνον, διαπλεῖ σινδόν᾽ ἐπαράμενος.

ὥστε μάτην Τρίτωνες ἐν ὕδασι δόξαν ἔχουσιν,
εἰ καὶ κηλήτης ταὐτὸ ποιεῖν δύναται.

— Paton edition

Diophantes with the hydrocele, when he wants to
cross to the other side, never gets into the feny-
boat, but putting all his packages and his donkey on
the hydrocele, sails across hoisting a sheet. So that
in vain have the Tritons glory in the waters if a
man with a hydrocele can do the same.

— Paton edition

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