Love
Book V, 263
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Never, my lamp, mayest thou wear a snuff! or arouse the rain, lest thou hold my bridegroom from coming. Ever dost thou grudge Cypris; for when Hero was plighted to Leander—no more, my heart, no more! ‘Thou art Hephaestus’s, and I believe that, by vexing Cypris, thou fawnest on her suffering lord.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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