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Translation:Catullus 70

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Catullus 70
by Catullus, translated from Latin by Wikisource

Elegiac couplets.

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Translation Original Latin Line

My woman says that she prefers to marry no one
over me, not even if Jupiter himself should seek her.
She says (these things), but what a woman says to her desirous lover
is fitting to write on the wind and on fast-flowing water.

Nūllī sē dīcit mulier mea nūbere mālle
    quam mihi, nōn sī sē Iuppiter ipse petat.
Dīcit: sed mulier cupidō quod dīcit amantī,
    in ventō et rapidā scrībere oportet aquā.

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