Love
Book V, 164
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Night, for I call thee alone to witness, look how shamefully Nico’s Pythias, ever loving to deceive, treats me. I came at her call and not uninvited. May she one day stand at my door and complain to thee that she suffered the like at my hands.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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