Love
Book V, 283
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
I had loveable Theano all night with me, but she never ceased from weeping piteously. From the hour when the evening star began to mount the heaven, she cursed it for being herald of the morrow’s dawn. Nothing is just as mortals would have it; a servant of Love requires Cimmerian nights.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book V, 283.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/32/.
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