Epigram 11.407

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Codex Palatinus 23 p. 565

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Tὸν λεπτὸν θακεῦντα Μενέστρατον εἴαρος ὥρῃ
μύρμηξ ἐξελθὼν εἵλκυσεν εἰς ῥαγάδα:
μυῖα δ᾽ ἐπιπτᾶσ᾽ αὐτὸν ἀνήρπασεν, ὡς Γανυμήδη
αἰετὸς εἰς θαλάμους οὐρανίους Κρονίδεω:
πίπτεν δ᾽ ἐκ χειρῶν μυίης, κοὐδ᾽ ὣς θίγε γαίης,
ἐκ δ᾽ ἀράχνης ἱστοῦ τῶν βλεφάρων κρέμαται.

— Paton edition

As lean Menestratus was sitting in spring-time an
ant came out and pulled him into a crevice ; but a
fly flew up and carried him off, just as the eagle
carried Ganymede to the heavenly chamber of Zeus.
He fell from the fly’s hands, but not even so did he
light on the earth, but is hanging by his eyelids from
a spider’s web.

— Paton edition

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