Love
Book XII, 236
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
A certain eunuch has good-looking servant-boys— for what use?—and he does them abominable injury. Truly, like the dog in the manger with the roses, and stupidly barking, he neither gives the good thing to himself nor to anyone else.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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