Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUSSo a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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We see not our own backs.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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