Love
Love the Conqueror (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
I am down: tread with thy foot on my neck, cruel divinity; I know thee, by the gods, heavy as thou art to bear: I know too thy fiery arrows: but hurling thy brands at my soul thou wilt no longer kindle it, for it is all ashes.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love the Conqueror (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/164/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love the Conqueror (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/164/.
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