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knowing the many intrigues of passionate Jove. Yet it is not fair to compare men with the gods bear up the ungrateful burden of a trembling father. After all she was not handed to me by a father’s right hand when she came to my house fragrant with Assyrian perfume,
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but she gave me her stolen favors in the wondrous night, taken away from the embrace of her own husband. Therefore it is enough if to us alone she gives that day which she marks with a whiter stone.
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This gift to you, Allius, completed in what verse I can, is in return for many services, so that this day and that, and other and other of days may not touch your name with flaking rust. To this the gods will add the many gifts, which Themis once used to bring to the pious of old.
May you be happy, both you and your life’s-love together, and your home in which we have sported, and its mistress, and he who first gave us earth takes it away, from whom all my good fortunes were first born, and lastly she whose very self is dearer to me than all these,—
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my light, who living, living is sweet to me.
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