Love
Book V, 35
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
I judged the hinder charms of three; for they themselves chose me, showing me the naked splendour of their limbs. Et prima quidem signata suleculis rotundis candido florebat et molli decore ; alterius vero divaricatae nivea caro rubescebat purpurea rosa rubicundior ; tertia velut mare tranquillum sulcabatur fluctibus mutis, delicata eius cute sponte palpitante. If Paris who judged the goddesses had seen three such, he would not have wished to look again on the former ones. :
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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