Love
Book XII, 234
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
If thou gloriest in thy beauty, know that the rose too blooms, but withers of a sudden and is cast away on the dunghill. ‘To blossom and to beauty the same time is allotted, and envious time withers both together.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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