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To the door-keeper, feet seven fathoms long, and sandals of five bulls’ hides, work for ten cobblers.

Quoted by Hephaestion as a specimen of metre.

Happy bridegroom, now has come thy wedding as thou wished, and thou hast the maiden of thy desire.

Thou happy bridegroom! Now has dawned

That day of days supreme,

When in thine arms thou’lt hold at last

The maiden of thy dream.

From Hephaestion.

From Hephaestion. Compare Catullus, “Mellitos oculos” and “Pulcher es neque te Venus negligit.”