epicalchus

Updated: May 21, 2025

And now Wolf is everything with her. And if I could cease to love, the world would wag as well as may be. But now, now, as they say, Thyonichus, I am like the mouse that has tasted pitch. And what remedy there may be for a bootless love, I know not; except that Simus, he who was in love with the daughter of Epicalchus, went over seas, and came back heart-whole, a man of my own age.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose