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On a Love Ploughing (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Laying down his torch and bow, soft Love took the rod of an ox-driver, and wore a wallet over his shoulder; and coupling patient-necked bulls under his yoke, sowed the wheat-bearing furrow of Demeter; and spoke, looking up, to Zeus himself, "Fill thou the corn-lands, lest I put thee, bull of Europa, under my plough."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Moschus. “On a Love Ploughing (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moschus/9/.
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Moschus. “On a Love Ploughing (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moschus/9/.
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