Love
Book V, 233
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
“To-morrow I will see thee.’ Yet to-morrow never comes, but ever, as thy way is, deferment is heaped upon deferment. That is all thou grantest to me who love thee; for others thou hast many gifts, for me but perfidy. “I will see thee in the evening.” But what is the evening of women? Old age full of countless wrinkles.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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