Love
Book V, 279
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Cleophantis delays, and for the third time the wick of the lamp begins to droop and rapidly fade. Would that the flame in my heart would sink with the lamp and did not this long while burn me with sleepless desire. Ah! how often she swore to Cytherea to come in the evening, but she scruples not to offend men and gods alike.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book V, 279.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/30/.
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