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1. Elegiac Poems

“Lest anyone think me to be speaking without book, I will subjoin a few passages from the Toys or Humorous Poems of Crates:1

Splendid Children of Memory and Olympian Zeus, give ear, Pierian Muses, unto my prayer. Grant fodder without fail unto my belly, which hath ever made my living of the frugalest short of slavery ...2 Make me rather profitable than pleasant to my friends. Fine possessions I wish not to gather, as who should crave the wealth of a beetle or the riches of an ant, but my prayer is to partake of righteousness and win a prosperity that is borne easily and gotten easily, valuable unto virtue. The which if I get, I will propitiate Hermes and the holy Muses not with rich spendings but with pure virtues.

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” Julian Orations

Hymn to Thrift

“Crates moreover composed a Hymn to Thrift :3

Hail, thou Goddess Queen, darling of the wise, Thrift that art sprung of renown'd Temperance; thy virtues are honoured by all who practise righteousness.

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” Julian Orations

1 parody of Sol. fr. 13: cf. Jul. Or. 7. 213a

2 one line （prob. only one, cf. Sol.） lost

3 Jul. has lines 1-2, A.P. 10. 104. 1-3, cf. Clem. Al. Paed. 3. 53. 3, Apost. 8. 13a

Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2.

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