Love
Book V, 285
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Divine Rhodanthe, being prevented from kissing me, held her maiden girdle stretched out between us, and kept kissing it, while I, like a gardener, diverted the stream of love to another point, sucking up the kiss, and so returned it from a distance, smacking with my lips on her girdle. Even this a little eased my pain, for the sweet girdle was like a ferry plying from lip to lip.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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