Living
Epigram LXXXV. — To the same Eunus
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book XIX. — Epigrams of Ausonius on Various Matters
Living
Lais, Eros, and Itys, Chiron and Eros, Itys again, these names write down and take their initials, that thou mayest form a word describing what thou dost, schoolmaster Eunus. To name the infamy in Latin becomes me not.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram LXXXV. — To the same Eunus.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/285/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram LXXXV. — To the same Eunus.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/285/.
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