Love
Book V, 232
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Kissing Hippomenes, my heart was fixed on Leander ; clinging to Leander’s lips, I bear the image of Xanthus in my mind; and embracing Xanthus my heart goes back to Hippomenes. Thus ever I refuse him I have in my grasp, and receiving one after another in my ever shifting arms, I court wealth of Love. Let whoso blames me remain in single poverty.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book V, 232.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/6/.
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