Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 29: De eodem
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
No Slave of a Plebeian House or kind,
But a Lad worthy his Lord's love to finde,
Glaucia my Meliar's manumitted Boy
Scarce capable his gifts yet to enjoy,
This boon with life and form he did partake,
None look'd more lovely, none more sweetly spake.
'Things too much doted on live short: and such
Thouwouldst love long, let them not please too much.
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