Love

Book V, 81

by Dionysius the Sophist 2nd century AD (Paton’s date)

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)

Love

You with the roses, rosy is your charm ; but what do you sell, yourself or the roses, or both?

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Sophist, Dionysius the. “Book V, 81.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dionysius-sophistes/0/.

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