Love
Book V, 225
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
My love is a running sore that ever discharges tears for the wound stancheth not; I am in evil case and find no cure, nor have I any Machaon to apply the gentle salve that I need. JI am Telephus, my child; be thou faithful Achilles and staunch with thy beauty the desire wherewith thy beauty smote me
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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