X THE FLOWERS
Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett) Buck translation
NYMPHS of the woods and fountains, sweetest of friends, I am here. Hide not, but come to my aid for I am burdened with many flowers.
I would choose, from all the forest, a poor hamadryad with raised arms and in her hair, the color of the leaves, I will place my heaviest rose.
See: I have taken so many from the fields that I cannot carry them away unless you help me make a garland. If you refuse, beware:
She of you with the orange hair, I saw her yesterday embraced like a beast by the satyr Lamprosathes and I will denounce the shameless one.