Love
Fragment X (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Happy are they that love, when with equal love they are rewarded. Happy was Theseus, when Pirithous was by his side, yea, though he went down to the house of implacable Hades. Happy among hard men and inhospitable was Orestes, for that Pylades chose to share his wanderings. And he was happy, Achilles Æacides, while his darling lived,—happy was he in his death, because he avenged the dread fate of Patroclus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Smyrna, Bion of. “Fragment X (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bion/27/.
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