Love
Book IX, 320
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Eurotas said once to Cypris, “Either arm thyself or go out of Sparta. The town has a craze for arms.” She smiled gently and replied, “I will both remain always unarmed and continue to dwell in the land of Lacedaemon.” Our Cypris is unarmed as elsewhere, and these are shameless writers who declare that with us even the goddess bears arms.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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