Love
Book V, 22
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
Love, the giver of sweet gifts, gave me to thee, Boépis, for a servant, yoking the steer that came himself to bend his neck to Desire, all of his own free will, at his own bidding, an abject slave who will never ask for bitter freedom, never, my dear, till he grows grey and old. May no evil eye ever look on our hopes to blight them !
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Rufinus. “Book V, 22.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/7/.
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Rufinus. “Book V, 22.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/7/.
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