I lived from -50--16. I was from Italy, and am in the European category.
Popular poetry
- Why do you wonder if a woman entwines my life and brings a man enslaved under her rule? Why fabricate charges of cowardice against my pe15 lines
- Just as Ariadne, the girl of Cnossus, lay on the naked shore, fainting, while Theseus’s ship vanished; or as Andromeda, Cepheus’s child,6 lines
- That which he is, I was, often: but perhaps one day he’ll be thrown out, and another one will be dearer to you.
Penelope was able to11 lines - You ask why a night with eager women is expensive, and why our exhausted powers bemoan Venus’s losses. The reason for such ruin is clear13 lines
- You’ll laugh at my downfall, as you often do, Gallus, because I’m alone and free, love lifted away. But I’ll never imitate your words, f4 lines
- When death closes my eyes at last, then, listen what will serve as my funeral. No long spread-out procession of images for me, then: no13 lines
- Are you mad, then, that my anxiety does not stop you? Am I less to you than chilly Illyria? Does he seem so great to you, whoever he is,2 lines
- Our quarrel by lamplight last night was sweet to me, and all those insults from your furious tongue, when frenzied with drinking you pus7 lines
