Rufinus, Epigrams VI (Greek Anthology 5.19)
“No longer am I crazy for boys, as once I was – Now I am crazy for women, and the discus has yielded to the castanet. I am now pleased by the colors of makeup and the superadded charm of rouge, instead of the guileless skin of boys. Surely, tree-tressed Erymanthus will give a watery pasture to the dolphins, and the swift deer will find their food on the old gray waves of the sea.”
Οὐκέτι παιδομανὴς ὡς πρίν ποτε, νῦν δὲ καλοῦμαι
θηλυμανής, καὶ νῦν δίσκος ἐμοὶ κρόταλον,
ἀντὶ δέ μοι παίδων ἀδόλου χροὸς ἤρεσε γύψου
χρώματα καὶ φύκους ἄνθος ἐπεισόδιον·
βοσκήσει δελφῖνας ὁ δενδροκόμης ᾿Ερύμανθος
καὶ πολιὸν πόντου κῦμα θοὰς ἐλάφους.
