Love
Book XII, 155
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
A, Don’t speak to me again like that. B. How am I to blame? He sent me himself. A. What will you say it a second time? B. A second time. He said “Go. But come, don’t delay, they are waiting for you. A. First of all I will find them and then I will come. I know from experience what the third story will be.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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