Love
Epigram LIII (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Love
If Theocritus with finely darkening cheek hates me, four times as much mayst thou hate him, or if he loves me, love. Yea, by Ganymede of the fair locks, O Zeus in heaven, thou too hast loved. I say no more.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LIII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/207/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LIII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/207/.
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