Horace's dancing girl

 

Motus doceri gaudet Ionicos matura virgo et fingitur artibus   iam nunc et incestos amores     de tenero meditatur ungui;

She likes to learn Ionian dances, this girl, nubile as she is, who with art perfects   herself, who since she was a child has     given her mind to unlawful loving.

mox iuniores quaerit adulteros inter mariti vina, neque eligit   cui donet impermissa raptim     gaudia luminibus remotis

Soon younger lovers she will be looking for boon friends of her husband she will choose and will   care not to whom she gives forbidden     rapture in corners ill-lit by lanterns.

sed iussa coram non sine conscio surgit marito, seu vocat institor   seu navis Hispanae magister,     dedecorum pretiosus emptor.

And though her husband sees, yes before him, as they order, she will rise - if a merchant calls   or Spanish shipmaster, anyone who     pays the excessive reckoning for her shame.