Love

Book V, 245

by Macedonius the Consul 6th century AD

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

Love

You titter and neigh like a mare that courts the male; you make quiet signs to me; you do everything to excite me, but in vain. I swore, I swore with three stones in my hand! that I would never look with kindly eyes on the hard-hearted girl. Practise kissing by yourself and smack your lips, that pout in naked shamelessness, but are linked to no man’s. But I go another way, for there are other better partners in the sports of Cypris.

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

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Consul, Macedonius the. “Book V, 245.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/macedonius/11/.

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