Love
Book V, 31
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Formerly there were three ages, a golden, a silver, and a brazen, but Cytherea is now all three. She honours the man of gold, and she kisses the brazen man and she never turns her back on the silver men. She is a very Nestor?; I even think that Zeus came to Danae, not turned to gold, but bringing a hundred gold sovereigns.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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