Religion
Book VI, 20
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
On the Same Lats took captive by her beauty Greece, which had laid in the dust the proud shield of Persia. Only old age conquered her, and the proof of her fall, the friend of her youth, she dedicates to thee, Cypris. She hates to see even the shadowy image of those grey hairs, whose actual sight she cannot bear,
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Julian, Prefect of Egypt. “Book VI, 20.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/julianus-egypt/4/.
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Julian, Prefect of Egypt. “Book VI, 20.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/julianus-egypt/4/.
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