Love
Book XII, 51
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Pour in the wine and again say “To Diocles,’ nor does Achelous touch the ladlefuls hallowed to him. Beautiful is the boy, Achelous, passing beautiful; and if any say “Nay”—let me alone know what beauty is.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Paton’s heading: “To the Cup-bearer”.
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