Love
Bissula IV. — On the same Bissula
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book IX. — Bissula
Love
Darling, delight, my pet, my love, my joy! Barbarian and adopted you may be, but you surpass your Roman sister-lasses. Bissula! 'Tis a clumsy little name for so delicate a girl, an uncouth little name to strangers; but to your master, charming.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Bissula IV. — On the same Bissula.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/131/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Bissula IV. — On the same Bissula.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/131/.
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