Love
Book XII, 157
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Cypris is my skipper and Love keeps the tiller, holding in his hand the end of my soul’s rudder, and the heavy gale of Desire drives me storm-tossed ; for now I swim verily in a Pamphylian sea of boys.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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