Love
Epigram XXXIX (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Love
These gifts to Aphrodite did Simon, the light o’ love, dedicate: a portrait of herself and the girdle that kissed her breasts, and her torch, yea, and the wands which she, poor woman, used to carry.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXXIX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/193/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXXIX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/193/.
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