Love
Book XII, 135
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Wine is the proof of love. Nicagoras denied to us that he was in love, but those many toasts convicted him. Yes he shed tears and bent his head, and had a certain downcast look, and the wreath bound tight round his head kept not its place.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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