Love
Book XII, 36
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Now you offer yourself, when the tender bloom is advancing under your temples and there is a prickly down on your thighs. And then you say, “I prefer this.” But who would say that the dry stubble is better than the eared corn?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Adramyttium, Asclepiades of. “Book XII, 36.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiades-adramyttium/0/.
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Adramyttium, Asclepiades of. “Book XII, 36.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiades-adramyttium/0/.