Love
Book III, Elegy 18: An Apology (Postgate)
Translated by J. P. Postgate (Loeb, 1913) · From Elegies (Loeb, 1913)
My life, let me be no more to thee so hot a passion as few days ago methinks I was, if in my whole youth I have done any deed of folly of which I would own I have repented more, than leaving thee yesternight alone, through desire to hide the fire within me.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Attributed to Sulpicia, from the Corpus Tibullianum; numbered III. 18 (IV. 12) in this volume.
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Tibullus (Albius Tibullus). “Book III, Elegy 18: An Apology (Postgate).” Translated by J. P. Postgate. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tibullus/57/.
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Tibullus (Albius Tibullus). “Book III, Elegy 18: An Apology (Postgate).” Translated by J. P. Postgate. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tibullus/57/.
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