Love
Book V, 229
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
A herdsman, looking on Niobe weeping, wondered how a rock could shed tears. But Euippe’s heart, the living stone, takes no pity on me lamenting through the misty darkness of so long a night. In both cases the fault is Love’s, who brought pain to Niobe for her children and to me the pain of passion.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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