Love
Book IX, 626: On another Bath called Love
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Love once bathed his mother Cypris in this bath, himself warming its lovely water with his torch. Ah, what a scent of spring had the sweat that ran from her ambrosial body mixing with the clear, white water! Henceforth from it ever bubbles a vapour smelling of roses, as if golden Cypris were still bathing.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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