Love
The Flower of Cos (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Praxiteles the sculptor made a Parian image of Love, moulding the Cyprian's son; but now Love, the most beautiful of all the gods, imaging himself, has fashioned a breathing statue, Praxiteles, that the one among mortals and the other in heaven may have all love-charms in control, and at once on earth and among the immortals they may bear the sceptres of Desire. Most happy the sacred city of the Meropes, which nurtured as prince of her youth the god-born new Love.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “The Flower of Cos (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/173/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “The Flower of Cos (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/173/.
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