Love
Book V, 271
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
She who once frolicked among the fairest of her sex, dancing with her golden castanettes and displaying her finery, is now worn by old age and pitiless disease. Her lovers, who once ran to welcome her, the eagerly desired, now shudder at her, and that waxing moon has waned away, since it never comes into conjunction.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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