Love
Love and Reason (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
My soul forewarns me to flee the desire of Heliodora, knowing well the tears and jealousies of old. She talks; but I have no strength to flee, for, shameless that she is, she forewarns, and while she forewarns, she loves.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Philodemus of. “Love and Reason (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/philodemus/29/.
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Gadara, Philodemus of. “Love and Reason (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/philodemus/29/.
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