And not one crock to keep shall he be able.”
Plato Comicus (as distinguished from the philosopher), who carried on a poetic contest with Aristophanes, ranks among the best of the poets of the Old Comedy, but only a few fragments of his work remain.
Here are two of them:
“Henceforth no four-legged creature should be slain,
Except the pig; of this the reason’s plain.
Its use—unless for food—man vainly seeks;
It only gives him bristles, dirt, and squeaks.”
“We’re swamped with ‘public men’; for one scamp dead,
Two louder talkers, greater scamps, instead
Spring up like Hydra’s heads: the more’s the pity