Love
Book V, 92
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Rhodope is exalted by her beauty, and if I chance to say “Good day,’ salutes me only with her proud eyebrows. If I ever hang garlands over her door, she crushes them under her haughty heels in her wrath. Come quicker, wrinkles and pitiless old age; make haste. Do you at least unbend Rhodope.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Rufinus. “Book V, 92.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/32/.
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