Epigram 6.20

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Codex Palatinus 23 p. 144

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Ἑλλάδα νικήσασαν ὑπέρβιον ἀσπίδα Μήδων
Λαῒς θῆκεν ἑῷ κάλλεϊ ληιδίην
μούνῳ ἐνικήθη δ᾽ ὑπὸ γήραϊ, καὶ τὸν ἔλεγχον
ἄνθετό σοι, Παφίη, τὸν νεότητι φίλον

ἧς γὰρ ἰδεῖν στυγέει πολιῆς παναληθέα μορφήν,
τῆσδε συνεχθαίρει καὶ σκιόεντα τύπον.

— Paton edition

Lais took captive by her beauty Greece, which
had laid iu the dust the proud shield of Persia.
Only old age conquered her, and the proof of her
fall, the friend of her youth, she dedicates to thee,
Cypris. She hates to see even the shadowy image of those grey hairs, whose actual sight she cannot bear.

— Paton edition

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