Love
Book XIII, 20
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Oris, giving glory to his fatherland, the holy city of Athena, offered this pleasant flute, child of the black earth, that he wrought by the help of Hephaestus, to Aphrodite, having been vanquished by love for beautiful Bryson.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘Hexameters followed alternately by a comic tetrameter wanting two syllables and an Archilochian scazon trimeter’.
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