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love-songs.

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Beauties like thine I never saw

Here at Kalesia's balls,
Nor throughout Mylopdtamo,

Nor within Kastro's walls15.

Thou likest art unto a Queen,

The world is ruled by thee;
Each heart thou wilFst thou dost enslave,

And each thou wnTst dost free10.

Sometimes the lover dwells on his own feelings and
sufferings, and thus " attunes his heart to elegies of
woe.

My mind, and all my heart's desire,

Have thee as their sole aim :
I stand as if of sense bereft,

To hear pronounced thy name17.

15 Tot KctAAr] (tov deu eio"' eyto

fjiovOe ek -rd KaXecna,

jXOXjQe (tto MuXoTrOTCtjUO

fxovde <tto KaVrpo pecra.

16 V/icrai to? fx'ia fia<riAi(rcra

K o\oi> TOV KO&jXOV Spinets,

nav 0eA.ets T(^rj ^a-pl^eis.

The word fiacriAtaca, though condemned by Phrynichus, is found in Phile-
mon, Babylon, in Athen. xin. p. 595. c. The rarer form {iaalAivva is also
used by Menander. See Sturz, de dial. Maced. p. 151. Lobeck, on
Phrynichus, p. 225. and fol. and Meiseke, on Menand. p. 280. and 362.

17'0 i/ouc jxov, ij biavoia,
e-rrecre peT ecreva'
nai areKw vd Kou(^ov\adw
hid ovopu (Tovcre'va.