Love
Book V, 266
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
They say a man bitten by a mad dog sees the brute’s image in the water. I ask myself,“Did Love go rabid, and fix his bitter fangs in me, and lay my heart waste with madness? For thy beloved image meets my eyes in the sea and in the eddying stream and in the wine-cup.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book V, 266.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/24/.
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