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>One must pluck loves, my heart, in due season and at the proper age.
>Ah! But any man who catches with his glance
>The bright rays flashing from Theoxenus’ eyes
>And is not tossed on the waves of desire,
>Has a black heart of adamant or iron
>Forged in a cold flame, and dishonored by Aphrodite of the arching brow
>Either toils compulsively for money
>Or, as a slave, is towed down a path utterly cold
>By a woman’s boldness.
>But I, by the will of the Love Goddess, melt
>Like the wax of holy bees stung by the sun’s heat,
>Whenever I look upon the fresh-limbed youth of boys.
>And surely even on the isle of Tenedos
>Seduction and Grace dwell
>In the son of Hagesilas.
— Pindar (c.518 BC – c.438 BC)
>One must pluck loves, my heart, in due season and at the proper age.
>Ah! But any man who catches with his glance
>The bright rays flashing from Theoxenus’ eyes
>And is not tossed on the waves of desire,
>Has a black heart of adamant or iron
>Forged in a cold flame, and dishonored by Aphrodite of the arching brow
>Either toils compulsively for money
>Or, as a slave, is towed down a path utterly cold
>By a woman’s boldness.
>But I, by the will of the Love Goddess, melt
>Like the wax of holy bees stung by the sun’s heat,
>Whenever I look upon the fresh-limbed youth of boys.
>And surely even on the isle of Tenedos
>Seduction and Grace dwell
>In the son of Hagesilas.
— Pindar (c.518 BC – c.438 BC)
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