Love
Book V, 309
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Love may justly be called thrice a brigand. He is wakeful, reckless, and he strips us bare.
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Codex Note
Ascribed to Diophanes of Myrina.
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