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GELLIVS est tenuis: quid ni? cui tam bona mater
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GELLIUS is thin, and well he may be; with a mother so kind
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tamque ualens uiuat tamque uenusta soror
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and so lusty and lively, and a sister so charming,
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tamque bonus patruus tamque omnia plena puellis
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and so kind an uncle, and so many girls of his acquaintance all over the place,
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cognatis, quare is desinat esse macer?
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why should he cease to be lean?
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qui ut nihil attingat, nisi quod fas tangere non est,
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Even if he touch nothing but what none may touch,
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quantumuis quare sit macer inuenies.
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you will find any number of reasons why he should be lean.
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