Theocritus Quote

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides
Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.


Idyll 29; lines 27-28; translation by C. S. Calverley, from Theocritus, translated into English Verse. - Idylls


Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.