Love

Book V, 213

by Posidippus fl. c. 280 BC

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)

Love

It anyone is with Pythias, I am off, but if she sleeps alone, for God’s sake admit me for a little, and say for a token that drunk, and through thieves, I came with daring Love for my guide.

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