Love
Book V, 182
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Give her this message, Dorcas ; look! tell her it twice and repeat the whole a third time. Off with you! don’t delay, fly !—just wait a moment, Dorcas! Dorcas, where are you off to before I’ve told you all? Just add to what I told you before—or rather (what a fool I am!) don’t say anything at all—only that— Tell her everything, don’t hesitate to say everything. But why am I sending you, Dorcas? Don’t you see I am going with you—in front of you ?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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