Love-loving Asclepias, with her clear blue eyes, like summer seas, persuades all to make the love-voyage.
Ἁ φίλερως χαροποῖς Ἀσκληπιὰς οἷα γαλήνης
ὄμμασι συμπείθει πάντας ἐρωτοπλοεῖν.
ὄμμασι συμπείθει πάντας ἐρωτοπλοεῖν.
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W. R. Paton, Greek Anthology, i, pp. 202-3. | ("Love’s Mariners") W. G. Headlam, A Book of Greek Verse (1907), pp. 226-7. | ASCLĒPIAS, child of passion, bright eyes like the calm sea’s blue,
You lure to sail for Cythēra whoever looks on you. | ("The Siren") F. L. Lucas, Greek Poetry for Everyman (1951), p. 352. | Anth. Pal. v. 171.