Love
Book V, 126
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
So-and-so gives so-and-so five talents for once, and possesses her in fear and trembling, and, by Heaven, she is not even pretty. I give Lysianassa five drachmas for twelve times, and she is better looking, and there is no secret about it. Either I have lost my wits, or he ought to be rendered incapable of such conduct for the fature.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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