Love
Book XII, 207
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Yesterday Diocles in the bath brought up a lizard from the tub, “ Aphrodite rising from the waves.” If someone had shown it to Paris then in Ida, he would have pronounced the three goddesses to be less fair than it.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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