Living
Book IX, 139
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The wanton, accompanying her dance with shrill shrieks and castanets, beats the brazen clappers together with quivering movements. Her grey hair, the harbinger of death, is concealed by... She tortures her eyes to dart ineffectual flashes ; her false colour is sicklied o’er by the pallor of shame; while a fictitious splendour clothes her hidden breasts.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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