Love
Requited Love
Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)
Happy are lovers when their love is requited. Theseus, for all he found Hades at the last implacable, was happy because Perithoüs went with him; and happy Orestes among the cruel Inhosptables, because Pylades had chosen to share his wanderings; happy also lived Achilles Aeacid while his dear comrade was alive, and died happy, seeing he so avenged his dreadful fate.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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