Love
Book V, 203
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Lysidice dedicated to thee, Cypris, her spur, the golden goad of her shapely leg, with which she trained many a horse on its back, while her own thighs were never reddened, so lightly did she ride ; for she ever finished the race without a touch of the spur, and therefore hung on the great gate of thy temple this her weapon of gold.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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