Love
Prelude (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Jar of Athens, drip the dewy juice of wine, drip, let the feast to which all bring their share be wetted as with dew; be silenced the swan, sage Zeno, and the Muse of Cleanthes, and let bitter-sweet Love be our concern.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Posidippus. “Prelude (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/posidippus/15/.
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Posidippus. “Prelude (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/posidippus/15/.
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