Living
Epigram XXXIV. — To a Maid, Galla, now growing old
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book XIX. — Epigrams of Ausonius on Various Matters
I used to say to thee: "Galla, we grow old, Time Hies away, enjoy thy life: a chaste girl is an old woman." Thou didst scorn my warning. Age has crept upon thee unperceived, nor canst thou call back the days that are gone. Now thou art sorry and dost lament, either because then thou wert disinclined, or because now thou hast not that former beauty. Yet give me thine embrace and share forgotten joys with me. Give: I will take, albeit not what I would, yet what T once would.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram XXXIV. — To a Maid, Galla, now growing old.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/237/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram XXXIV. — To a Maid, Galla, now growing old.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/237/.
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