Love
Book XII, 204
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Now you may say, “Golden gifts for brazen.” Sosiades the fair and Diocles the bushy are playing at “Give and take.’ Who compares roses with brambles, or figs with toadstools? Who compares a lamb like curdled milk with an ox? What dost thou give, thoughtless boy, and what dost thou receive in return? Such gifts did Diomede give to Glaucus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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