Love
Book V, 267
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
A. Why do you sigh? B. I am in love. A. With whom? B. A girl. A. Is she pretty? B. In my eyes. A. Where did you notice her? B. There, where I went to dinner, I saw her reclining with the rest. A. Do you hope to succeed? B. Yes, yes, my friend, but I want a secret affair and not an open one. A. You are averse then from lawful wedlock? B. I learnt for certain that she is very poorly off. A. You learnt ! you lie, you are not in love; how can a heart that reckons correctly be touched with love's madness ?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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