Sunday, August 14, 2022
I Can't Help Myself
Greek Anthology 11.340 (by Palladas; tr. W.R. Paton):
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I swore ten thousand times to make no more epigrams,For Pentagathus read Pantagathus. Maybe he had a Backpfeifengesicht.
for I had brought on my head the enmity of many fools,
but when I set eyes on the face of the Paphlagonian
Pentagathus I can't repress the malady.
ὤμοσα μυριάκις ἐπιγράμματα μηκέτι ποιεῖν·
πολλῶν γὰρ μωρῶν ἔχθραν ἐπεσπασάμην.
ἀλλ᾽ ὁπόταν κατίδω τοῦ Παφλαγόνος τὸ πρόσωπον
Πανταγάθου, στέξαι τὴν νόσον οὐ δύναμαι.
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