olpis

Updated: May 31, 2025

I will cast off my coat of skins, and into yonder waves I will spring, where the fisher Olpis watches for the tunny shoals, and even if I die not, surely thy pleasure will have been done. I learned the truth of old, when, amid thoughts of thee, I asked, 'Loves she, loves she not? and the poppy petal clung not, and gave no crackling sound, but withered on my smooth forearm, even so.

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