Cratinus, fr. 53: Punishment for Public Defecation

“I knocked Kercyon out when I found him

taking a shit at dawn among the cabbages”

τὸν Κερκυόνα θ᾿ ἕωθεν ἀποπατοῦντ᾿ ἐγὼ

ἐπὶ τοῖς λαχάνοις εὑρὼν ἀπέπνιξα.