Love
Book XIII, 24
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Love
Vagrant Simon offered these gifts to Aphrodite: her own portrait, the band that kissed her breasts, her torch, and the thyrsi she once waved, poor soul, sporting on the mountains.
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Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘Hendecasyllables following the last two feet of a tetrameter’.
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Callimachus. “Book XIII, 24.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/68/.
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