Love
Book V, 60
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
The silver-footed maiden was bathing, letting the water fall on the golden apples of her breast, smooth like curdled milk. Her rounded buttocks, their flesh more fluid than water, rolled and tossed as she moved. Her outspread hand covered swelling Eurotas, not the whole but as much as it could.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Rufinus. “Book V, 60.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/19/.
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