Love
Book IX, 245
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
By the unhappy marriage-bed of Petale at her bitter bridal stood Hades, not Hymen. For, as she fled alone through the darkness, dreading the first taste of the yoke of Cypris—a terror common to all maidens—the cruel watch-dogs killed her. We had hoped to see her a wife and suddenly we could hardly find her corpse.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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