Love
Book XII, 53
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Richly loaded ocean ships that sail down the Hellespont, taking to your bosoms the good North Wind, if haply ye see on the beach of Cos Phanion gazing at the blue sea, give her this message, good ships, that Desire carries me there not on shipboard, but faring on my feet. For if you tell her this, ye bearers of good tidings, straight shall Zeus also breathe the gale of his favour into your sails.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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