Carmen 105: To Aufilena

The mistress, that's honest, will always lay down
The thing she is paid for; and praise is her due:
To jilt, and yet take a full price, it is known,
Can only be done, Aufilena, by you.

A girl should not promise at all, if she's wise;
But having once said, she should keep to her word:
For she, who each whimsical lover supplies,
To one, that by bilking grows rich, is preferr'd.
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Catullus
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