Love
Book V, 41
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Who beat you and turned you out half-naked like this? Who had so stony a heart and no eyes to see ? Perhaps he arrived inopportunely and found you with alover. Thatis a thing that happens; all women do it, my child. But henceforth when someone is in, and he is out, bolt the outer door, lest the same thing happen to you again.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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