Love
Book XII, 100
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
To what strange haven of desire hast thou brought me, Cypris, and pitiest me not, although thou thyself hast experience of the pain? Is it thy will that I should suffer the unbearable and speak this word, “Cypris alone has wounded the man wise in the Muses’ lore” ?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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