Love
Book V, 5
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
To faithless Nape Flaccus gave myself, this silver lamp, the faithful confidant of the loves of the night ; and now I droop at her bedside, looking on the lewdness of the forsworn girl. But thou, Flaccus, liest awake, tormented by cruel care, and both of us are burning far away from each other.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Ascribed to Statyllius Flaccus.
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