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#LatinForTheDay – 21 October

“Eripitur nobis iam pridem cara puella:
et tu me lacrimas fundere, amice, vetas?
nullae sunt inimicitiae nisi amoris acerbae:
ipsum me iugula, lenior hostis ero.
possum ego in alterius positam spectare lacerto?...
"...nec mea dicetur, quae modo dicta meast?
omnia vertuntur: certe vertuntur amores:
vinceris a victis, haec in amore rotast.
magni saepe duces, magni cecidere tyranni,
et Thebae steterunt altaque Troia fuit....
"munera quanta dedi vel qualia carmina feci!
illa tamen numquam ferrea dixit ‘amo.’”

Propertius 2.8.1-12
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#LatinForTheDay – 20 October

“O me felicem! nox o mihi candida! et o tu
lectule deliciis facte beate meis!
quam multa apposita narrâmus verba lucerna,
quantaque sublato lumine rixa fuit!
nam modo nudatis mecumst luctata papillis,
interdum tunica duxit operta moram...
"illa meos somno lapsos patefecit ocellos
ore suo et dixit ‘sicine, lente, iaces?’
quam vario amplexu mutâmus bracchia! quantum
oscula sunt labris nostra morata tuis!”

Propertius 2.15.1-10
‘Damn me, I’m blessed! What a night! And you,
My bed, became a shrine to the delights of love!
How many sweet nothings we whispered in the lamplight;
What a kerfuffle when the light burned low!
Sometimes my love’s bare breasts pressed against my chest,...
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