Love
Book V, 258
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Your wrinkles, Philinna, are preferable to the juice of all youthful prime, and I desire more to clasp in my hands your apples nodding with the weight of their clusters, than the firm breasts of a young girl. Your autumn excels another's spring, and your winter is warmer than another’s summer.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book V, 258.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/19/.
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