Love
Book XII, 227
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Even if I desire to avoid looking at a pretty boy when I meet him, I have scarcely passed him when I at once turn round.
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