Love
Book V, 253
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Way, Chrysilla, do you bend your head and gaze at the floor, and why do your fingers trifle with your girdle’s knot? Shame mates not with Cypris, and if you must be silent, by some sign at least tell me that you submit to the Paphian goddess,
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Ascribed to Irenaeus Referendarius.
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