Love
Book XII, 189
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Who crowned all thy head with roses? If it was a lover, blessed is he, but if it was thy father, he too has eyes.
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