Love
Love's Sweetness (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Nothing is sweeter than love, and all delicious things are second to it; yes, even honey I spit out of my mouth. Thus saith Nossis; but he whom the Cyprian loves not, knows not what roses her flowers are.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Nossis. “Love's Sweetness (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/nossis/12/.
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Nossis. “Love's Sweetness (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/nossis/12/.
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