Love
Odi et Amo (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Take this message, Dorcas; lo again a second and a third time, Dorcas, take her all my message; run; delay no longer; fly. Wait a little, Dorcas, prithee a little; Dorcas, whither so fast before learning all I would say? And add to what I have just said--but no, I go on like a fool; say nothing at all--only that--say everything; spare not to say everything. Yet why do I send thee out, Dorcas, when myself, see, I go forth with thee?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Odi et Amo (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/141/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Odi et Amo (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/141/.
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