Love
Book V, 256
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Galatea last evening slammed her door in my face, and added this insulting phrase ; “Scorn breaks up love.” A foolish phrase that idly goes from mouth to mouth! Scorn but inflames my passion all the more. I swore to remain a year away from her, but ye gods ! in the morning I went straightway to supplicate at her door.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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