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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

κούρη τίς μ᾽ ἐφίλησεν ὑφέσπερα χείλεσιν...
Language: Greek (Ελληνικά) 
κούρη τίς μ᾽ ἐφίλησεν ὑφέσπερα χείλεσιν ὑγροῖς.
νέκταρ]ἔην τὸ φίλημα: τὸ γὰρ στόμα νέκταρος ἔπνει:
καὶ μεθύω τὸ φίλημα, πολὺν τὸν ἔρωτα πεπωκώς. 

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Confirmed with The Greek Anthology. With an English Translation by. W. R. Paton, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1916. Anonymous epigram no. 305.


Show a transliteration: DIN | ISO 843

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Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Charles-Gaston Levadé.
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This text was added to the website: 2020-01-15
Line count: 3
Word count: 23

Un soir, une jeune fille m'a donné un baiser
Language: French (Français)  after the Greek (Ελληνικά) 
[L'autre jour, sur le soir]1, une jeune fille m'a donné un baiser [humide]2
Ce baiser sentait le nectar, car de nectar sa bouche était pleine ;
et maintenant je suis ivre d'amour, ayant [bu trop]3 d'amour dans ce baiser...

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•   C. Levadé 

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Confirmed with Anthologie grecque traduite sur le texte publié d'après le manuscrit palatin par Fr[iedrich] Jacobs, no French translator listed, Volume 1, Paris, Hachette, 1863, page 68.

1 Levadé: "Un soir"
2 omitted by Levadé
3 Levadé: "trop bu"

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Charles-Gaston Levadé (1869 - 1948), "Un soir, une jeune fille m'a donné un baiser" [ voice and piano ], from L'amour d'Héliodora, silhouettes grecques sur des traductions de poèmes anciens tirés de l'Anthologie Grecque, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Enoch & Cie.; confirmed with La Musique pendant la guerre: revue musicale mensuelle, directeur gérant Charles Hayet ; secrétaire général Francis Casadesus ; administrateur Ernest Brodier, June 17 1917, page 209 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-01-15
Line count: 3
Word count: 42

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