Love
Book V, 165
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Mother of all the gods, dear Night, one thing I beg, yea I pray to thee, holy Night, companion of my revels. If some one lies cosy beneath Heliodora’s mantle, warmed by her body’s touch that cheateth sleep, let the lamp close its eyes and let him, cradled on her bosom, lie there a second Endymion.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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