Living
Book IX, 554
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Clam, Heraclea, pulchris juvenibus ore morigeraris. For long all the town says it of you. How do you venture to do such a shameful thing? Did anyone catch you by your beautiful hair and force you to it? Or is it because your pretty name is derived from Heracles that in your depravity you choose to kiss his wife Hebe (pubem juvenum).
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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