Love
Book V, 68
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Either put an entire stop to loving, Eros, or else add being loved, so that you may either abolish desire or temper it.
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Codex Note
Ascribed to Lucilius or Polemo of Pontus.
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