Epigram 12.192

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Jeune boxeur. (M. Yourcenar)

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οὐ τέρπουσι κόμαι με, περισσότεροί τε κίκιννοι,
τέχνης, οὐ φύσεως ἔργα διδασκόμενοι:
ἀλλὰ παλαιστρίτου παιδὸς ῥύπος ὁ ψαφαρίτης,
καὶ χροιὴ μελέων σαρκὶ λιπαινομένη.

ἡδὺς ἀκαλλώπιστος ἐμὸς πόθος: ἡ δὲ γοῆτις
μορφὴ θηλυτέρης ἔργον ἔχει Παφίης.

— Paton edition

I am not charmed by long hair and needless ringlets taught in the school of Art, not of Nature, but by the dusty grime of a boy fresh from the playground and the colour given to the limbs by the gloss of oil. My love is sweet when unadorned, but a fraudulent beauty has in it the work of female Cypris.

— Paton edition

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