Love
Book XII, 241
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
You have made a hook, my child, and I am the fish you have caught. Pull me where you will, but don’t run or you might lose me.
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