Love
Of Love Ploughing
Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)
Love the Destroyer set down his torch and his bow, and slinging a wallet on his back, took an ox-goad in hand, yoked him a sturdy pair of steers, and fell to ploughing and sowing Demeter's cornland; and while he did so, he looked up unto great Zeus saying "Be sure thou make my harvest fat; for it thou fail me I'll have that bull of Europa's to my plough."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Moschus. “Of Love Ploughing.” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moschus/6/.
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Moschus. “Of Love Ploughing.” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moschus/6/.
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