O bitterness of things too sweet!
Swinburne, Fragoletta.
Sweet Love, that art so bitter.
Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse.
and the song in Bothwel, act i. sc. 1:—
Surely most bitter of all sweet things thou art,
And sweetest thou of all things bitter, love.
Quoted by Hephaestion. Cf. fr. [125].
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Ἄτθι, σοὶ δ' ἔμεθεν μεν ἀπήχθετο