Love
Book V, 161
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Euphro, Thais and Boidion, Diomede’s old women, the twenty-oared transports of ship-captains, have east ashore, one apiece, naked and worse off than shipwrecked mariners, Agis, Cleophon and Antagoras. But fly from Aphrodite’s corsairs and their ships ; they are worse foes than the Sirens.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Ascribed to Hedylus or Asclepiades.
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