Love
Book XVI, 167: On the Same and on Praxiteles’ Statue of Eros at Thespiae
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
You will say, when you look on Cypris in rocky Cnidus, that she, though of stone, may set a stone on fire; but when you see the sweet Love in Thespiae you will say that he will not only set fire to a stone, but to cold adamant. Such were the gods Praxiteles made, each in a different continent, that everything should not be burnt up by the double fire.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “Book XVI, 167: On the Same and on Praxiteles’ Statue of Eros at Thespiae.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/75/.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “Book XVI, 167: On the Same and on Praxiteles’ Statue of Eros at Thespiae.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/75/.
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