Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 71 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
She who was cunning to show wanton gestures to the sound of Baetic castanets and to frolic to the tunes of Gades, she who could have roused passion in palsied Pelias, and have stirred Hecuba's spouse even by Hector's pyre — Telethusa burns and racks with love her former master. He sold her as his maid, now he buys her back as mistress.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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