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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. |