Love
Book V, 183
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
We are four at the party, and each brings his mistress ; since that makes eight, one jar of Chian is not enough. Go, my lad, to Aristius and tell him the first he sent was only half full; it is two gallons short certainly ; I think more. But look sharp, for we all meet at five.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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