Love
Book IX, 442
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Love
A fisherman was toiling to catch fish when a wealthy girl, seeing him, felt the pangs of love. She made him her husband, and he exchanged his poverty for a life boasting of every luxury. Fortune stood by smiling, and said to Cypris: “This is not your achievement, but mine.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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