{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/10872/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"edition":{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/editions/1/?format=json","descriptions":[{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/descriptions/424/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"created_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033306Z","updated_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033317Z","description":"Paton edition"}],"edition_type":0,"metadata":{},"created_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z","updated_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z"},"unique_id":100001203,"created_at":"2021-11-24T15:04:27.512150Z","updated_at":"2021-11-24T15:04:27.512156Z","validation":0,"status":1,"text":"Reply  on  the  same  subject  to  his  friend  Agathias \r\n\r\nLove,  the  violent,  knows  not  Law,  nor  does  any other  work  tear  a  man  away  from  true  passion.  If the  labour  of  your  law  studies  holds  you  back,  then fierce  love  dwells  not  in  your  breast.  What  love  is that,  when  a  narrow  strait  of  the  sea  can  keep  you apart    from    your  beloved  ?      Leander   showed   the power  of  love  by  swimming  fearless  of  the  billows and  the  night.  And  you,  my  friend,  can  take  the ferry  ;  but  the  fact  is  you  have  renounced  Cypris, and  pay  more  attention  to  Athene.  To  Pallas belongs  law,  to  Cypris  desire.  Tell  me  !  what  man can  serve  both  at  once  ?","comments":[],"alignments":[],"passages":["https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:5.293/?format=json"]}