Love
Book V, 12
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Let us bathe, Prodike, and crown our heads, and quaff untempered wine, lifting up greater cups. Short is the season of rejoicing, and then old age comes to forbid it any longer, and at the last death.
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Rufinus. “Book V, 12.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/1/.
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Rufinus. “Book V, 12.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/1/.
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