Love
The Sun of Tyre (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Delicate, so help me Love, are the fosterlings of Tyre; but Myïscus blazes out and quenches them all as the sun the stars.
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MLA
Gadara, Meleager of. “The Sun of Tyre (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/174/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “The Sun of Tyre (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/174/.
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