Love
Love and Wine (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
I am armed against Love with a breastplate of Reason, neither shall he conquer me, one against one; yes, I a mortal will contend with him the immortal: but if he have Bacchus to second him, what can I do alone against the two?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Rufinus. “Love and Wine (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/37/.
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Rufinus. “Love and Wine (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/37/.
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