Love
Book V, 295
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Touch, O cup, the lips that drop honey, suck now thou hast the chance. I envy not, but would thy luck were mine.
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Ascribed to Leontius.
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