"I lose the sunlight, lovely above all else; Bright stars I loved the next, and the moon’s face, Ripe gourds, and fruit of apple-tree and pear."
— Fruit

January 1, 1970

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Praxilla, Fragment quoted by Zenobius, Proverbs, 4, 21; translated by T. F. Higham, Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. 465