Love
Book V, 114
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
That persistently cruel Philistion, who never tolerated an admirer unless he had money, seems less insufferable now than formerly. It is not a great miracle her seeming so, but I don’t believe her nature is changed. The merciless aspic grows tamer at times, but when it bites, it always means death.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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