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LESBIA mi praesente uiro mala plurima dicit:
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LESBIA says many hard things to me in the presence of her husband,
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haec illi fatuo maxima laetitia est.
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a great joy to the fool.
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mule, nihil sentis? si nostri oblita taceret,
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Dull mule, you understand nothing. If she forgot me and were silent,
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sana esset: nunc quod gannit et obloquitur,
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she would be heart-whole. But as it is, her snarling and railing means this:
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non solum meminit, sed, quae multo acrior est res,
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she not only remembers, but -- a much more serious thing --
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irata est. hoc est, uritur et loquitur
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she is angry; that is, she burns, and so she talks.
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