Love
Book V, 30
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
All Homer says is well said, but this most excellently that Aphrodite is golden. For if, my friend, you bring the coin, there is neither a porter in the way, nor a dog chained before the door. But if you come without it, there is Cerberus himself there. Oh! grasping code of wealth, how dost thou oppress poverty !
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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