Love
The Love Letter (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Rufinus to Elpis, my most sweet: well and very well be with her, if she can be well away from me. No longer can I bear, no, by thine eyes, my solitary and unmated severance from thee, but evermore blotted with tears I go to Coressus or to the temple of the great Artemis; but tomorrow my home shall receive me, and I will fly to thy face and bid thee a thousand greetings.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Rufinus. “The Love Letter (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/38/.
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Rufinus. “The Love Letter (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/38/.
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