Love
Book XII, 152
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Heraclitus, my beloved, is a Magnet, not attracting iron by stone, but my spirit by his beauty.
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