Love
Book IX, 606
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Love
Look at Cytherea whom Ares once loved, bathing here in the limpid stream. Look at her swimming, and fear not. It is not maiden Athena that you see, as Tiresias did.
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