Love
Book V, 234
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
I who formerly in my youth with stubborn heart refused to yield to the sweet empire of Cypris, wielder of the goad, I who was proof against the consuming arrows of the Loves, now grown half grey, bend the neck to thee, O Paphian queen. Receive me and laugh elate that thou conquerest wise Pallas now even more than when ye contended for the apple of the Hesperides.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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