Love
Book V, 76
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Once her complexion was lovely, her breasts like the spring-tide; all were good, her ankles, her height, her forehead, her hair. But time and old age and grey locks have wrought a change and now she is not the shadow of her former self, but wears false hair and has a wrinkled face, uglier even than an old monkey’s.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Rufinus. “Book V, 76.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/28/.
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