Love
Book IX, 235: On the marriage of Cleopatra (daughter of Antony and Cleopatra) with Juba, King of Numidia
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Great bordering regions of the world which the full stream of Nile separates from the black Aethiopians, ye have by marriage made your sovereigns common to both, turning Egypt and Libya into one country. May the children of these princes ever again rule with unshaken dominion over both lands.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “Book IX, 235: On the marriage of Cleopatra (daughter of Antony and Cleopatra) with Juba, King of Numidia.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/27/.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “Book IX, 235: On the marriage of Cleopatra (daughter of Antony and Cleopatra) with Juba, King of Numidia.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/27/.
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