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“Ἁ φίλερως χαροποῖς Ἀσκληπιὰς οἷα γαλήνης
ὄμμασι συμπείθει πάντας ἐρωτοπλοεῖν.
• Love-loving Asclepias, with her clear blue eyes, like summer seas, persuades all to make the love-voyage.”
ὄμμασι συμπείθει πάντας ἐρωτοπλοεῖν.
• Love-loving Asclepias, with her clear blue eyes, like summer seas, persuades all to make the love-voyage.”
“Ἔγχει, καὶ πάλιν εἰπέ, πάλιν, πάλιν “Ἡλιοδώρας”
εἰπέ, σὺν ἀκρήτῳ τὸ γλυκὺ μίσγ᾽ ὄνομα:
καί μοι τὸν βρεχθέντα μύροις καὶ χθιζὸν ἐόντα,
μναμόσυνον κείνας ἀμφιτίθει στέφανον.
δακρύει φιλέραστον ἰδοὺ ῥόδον, οὕνεκα κείναν
ἄλλοθι, κοὐ κόλποις ἁμετέροις ἐσορᾷ.
• Fill up the cup and say again, again, again, “Heliodora’s.” Speak the sweet name, temper the wine with but that alone. And give me, though it be yesternight’s, the garland still dripping with scent to wear in memory of her. Look how the rose that favours Love is weeping, because it sees her elsewhere and not in my bosom.”
εἰπέ, σὺν ἀκρήτῳ τὸ γλυκὺ μίσγ᾽ ὄνομα:
καί μοι τὸν βρεχθέντα μύροις καὶ χθιζὸν ἐόντα,
μναμόσυνον κείνας ἀμφιτίθει στέφανον.
δακρύει φιλέραστον ἰδοὺ ῥόδον, οὕνεκα κείναν
ἄλλοθι, κοὐ κόλποις ἁμετέροις ἐσορᾷ.
• Fill up the cup and say again, again, again, “Heliodora’s.” Speak the sweet name, temper the wine with but that alone. And give me, though it be yesternight’s, the garland still dripping with scent to wear in memory of her. Look how the rose that favours Love is weeping, because it sees her elsewhere and not in my bosom.”
“Ἀχήεις τέττιξ, δροσεραῖς σταγόνεσσι μεθυσθείς,
ἀγρονόμαν μέλπεις μοῦσαν ἐρημολάλον
ἄκρα δ᾽ ἐφεζόμενος πετάλοις, πριονώδεσι κώλοις
αἰθίοπι κλάζεις χρωτὶ μέλισμα λύρας.
ἀλλά, φίλος, φθέγγου τι νέον δενδρώδεσι Νύμφαις
παίγνιον, ἀντῳδὸν Πανὶ κρέκων κέλαδον,
ὄφρα φυγὼν τὸν Ἔρωτα, μεσημβρινὸν ὕπνον ἀγρεύσω
ἐνθάδ᾽ ὑπὸ σκιερᾷ κεκλιμένος πλατάνῳ.
• Noisy cicada, drunk with dew drops, thou singest thy rustic ditty that fills the wilderness with voice, and seated on the edge of the leaves, striking with saw-like legs thy sunburnt skin thou shrillest music like the lyre’s. But sing, dear, some new tune to gladden the woodland nymphs, strike up some strain responsive to Pan’s pipe, that I may escape from Love and snatch a little midday sleep, reclining here beneath the shady plane-tree.”
ἀγρονόμαν μέλπεις μοῦσαν ἐρημολάλον
ἄκρα δ᾽ ἐφεζόμενος πετάλοις, πριονώδεσι κώλοις
αἰθίοπι κλάζεις χρωτὶ μέλισμα λύρας.
ἀλλά, φίλος, φθέγγου τι νέον δενδρώδεσι Νύμφαις
παίγνιον, ἀντῳδὸν Πανὶ κρέκων κέλαδον,
ὄφρα φυγὼν τὸν Ἔρωτα, μεσημβρινὸν ὕπνον ἀγρεύσω
ἐνθάδ᾽ ὑπὸ σκιερᾷ κεκλιμένος πλατάνῳ.
• Noisy cicada, drunk with dew drops, thou singest thy rustic ditty that fills the wilderness with voice, and seated on the edge of the leaves, striking with saw-like legs thy sunburnt skin thou shrillest music like the lyre’s. But sing, dear, some new tune to gladden the woodland nymphs, strike up some strain responsive to Pan’s pipe, that I may escape from Love and snatch a little midday sleep, reclining here beneath the shady plane-tree.”
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Meleager of Gadara (fl. 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek poet.