Love
Book XII, 40
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Take not off my cloak, Sir, but look on me even as if I were a draped statue with the extremities only of marble. If you wish to see the naked beauty Antiphilus you will find the rose growing as if on thorns.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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