Love
Book V, 273
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
She who once held herself so high in her beauty, and used to shake her plaited tresses in her pride, she who used to vaunt herself proof against my doleful passion, is now old and wrinkled and her charm is gone. Her breasts are pendent and her eyebrows are fallen, the fire of her eyes is dead and her speech is trembling and senile. I call grey hairs the Nemesis of Love, because they judge justly, coming soonest to those who are proudest.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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