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Epigram XCVI. — On Hermione's Girdle
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book XIX. — Epigrams of Ausonius on Various Matters
A CRIMSON girdle bound Hermione's swelling breasts: and on the girdle this couplet was embroidered: "Thou who dost read this inscription, know that the Paphian commands thee to love me, and by thy conduct to forbid none to love."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram XCVI. — On Hermione's Girdle.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/293/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram XCVI. — On Hermione's Girdle.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/293/.
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