Translations from Latin
| Ovid | |||
| From the Fasti: woman as witch | |||
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Ecce anus in mediis residens annosa puellis |
See the hag who's sitting there among the girls | ||
| Horace | |||
| On maidenhood | |||
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Nondum subacta ferre iugum valet |
Not yet subdued, too young for the wedding yoke, | ||
| Dancing girl | |||
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Motus doceri gaudet Ionicos |
She likes to learn Ionian dances, this | ||
| Petronius Arbiter | |||
| A night to remember | |||
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Qualis nox fuit illa, di deaeque, |
What a night that was, ye gods and goddesses. | ||
| Martial | |||
| For his dead daughter | |||
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Hanc tibi, Fronto pater, genetrix Flacilla, puellam |
To you my father Fronto, Flacilla my mother, | ||
| Ausonius | |||
| To his wife | |||
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Uxor, vivamusque ut viximus et teneamus |
Wife let us live as we lived; let us keep for all time | ||