Love
Love the Ball-Player (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Love who feeds on me is a ball-player, and throws to thee, Heliodora, the heart that throbs in me. Come then, take thou Love-longing for his playmate; but if thou cast me away from thee, I will not bear such wanton false play.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Gadara, Meleager of. “Love the Ball-Player (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/146/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love the Ball-Player (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/146/.
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