Love
Book XII, 162
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
My Love, not yet carrying a bow, or savage, but a tiny child, returns to Cypris, holding a golden writing tablet, and reading from it he lisps the love-charms that Diaulus’ boy, Philocrates, used to conquer the soul of Antigenes.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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