Love
Book V, 8
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
O holy Night, and Lamp, we both chose no confidants but you of our oaths : and he swore to love me and I never to leave him; and ye were joint witnesses. But now he says those oaths were written in running water, and thou, O Lamp, seest him in the bosom of others.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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