Love
Love the Slayer (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I beseech thee, Love, charm asleep the wakeful longing in me for Heliodora, pitying my suppliant verse; for, by thy bow that never has learned to strike another, but always upon me pours its winged shafts, even though thou slay me I will leave letters uttering this voice, "Look, stranger, on Love's murdered man."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Gadara, Meleager of. “Love the Slayer (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/157/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love the Slayer (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/157/.
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