Love
Book V, 220
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
If grey hairs now have lulled your desires, Cleobulus, and that glowing goad of love-madness is blunted, you should, when you reflect on the passions of your youth, take pity now on the pains of younger people, and not be so very wroth at weaknesses common to all mankind, robbing the slender girl of all the glory of her hair. The poor child formerly looked upon you as a father, (anti patros), and now all at once you have become a foe (antipalos).
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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