Love
Book V, 252
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Let us throw off these cloaks, my pretty one, and lie naked, knotted in each other’s embrace. Let nothing be between us; even that thin tissue you wear seems thick to me as the wall of Babylon. Let our breasts and our lips be linked ; the rest must be veiled in silence. I hate a babbling tongue.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book V, 252.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/15/.
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