Love
Book XII, 108
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
If thou lovest me, Acratus, mayest thou be ranked with Chian wine, yea and even more honey-sweet ; but if thou preferest another to me, let the gnats buzz about thee as in the fume of a jar of vinegar.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Ascribed to Dionysius.
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