Love
Book XII, 129
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Philoctes of Argos is “fair” at Argos, and the columns of Corinth and tombstones of Megara announce the same. It is written that he is fair as far as Amphiaraus’ Baths. But that is little; they are only letters that beat us. For they are not stones that testify to this Philocles’ beauty, but Rhianus, who saw him with his own eyes, and he is superior to the other one.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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