Love
Inter Minora Sidera (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Pour ten cups for Lysidice, and for beloved Euphrante, slave, give me one cup. Thou wilt say I love Lysidice more? No, by sweet Bacchus, whom I drink deep in this bowl; Euphrante for me, one against ten; for the one splendour of the moon also outshines the innumerable stars.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Argentarius, Marcus. “Inter Minora Sidera (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/marcus-argentarius/36/.
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Argentarius, Marcus. “Inter Minora Sidera (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/marcus-argentarius/36/.
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