Love
Amantium Irae (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
At evening Galatea slammed-to the doors in my face, flinging at me a speech of scorn. "Scorn breaks love"; idly wanders this proverb; her scorn inflames my love-madness the more. For I swore I would stay a year away from her; out and alas! but with break of day I went to make supplication.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Amantium Irae (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/84/.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Amantium Irae (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/84/.
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