Love
Book XVI, 195: On a Statue of Love Bound
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Who fettered thee, the winged boy, who bound swift fire with chains? Who laid his hand on Love’s burning quiver and made fast behind his back those hands swift to shoot, tying them to a sturdy pillar? Such things are but chill consolation for men. Did not, perchance, this prisoner himself enchain once the mind of the artist?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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