Catullus Poem 70
 
 
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NVLLI se dicit mulier mea nubere malle 1 THE woman I love says that there is no one whom she would rather marry
quam mihi, non si se Iuppiter ipse petat.
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than me, not if Jupiter himself were to woo her.
dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, 3 Says; -- but what a woman says to her ardent lover
in uento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.
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should be written in wind and running water.