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Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri
aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
Omnia sunt ingrata, nihil fecisse benigne
immo etiam taedet, taedet obestque magis;
ut mihi, quem nemo gravius nec acerbius urget,
quam modo qui me unum atque unicum amicum habuit.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Catullus Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris, London: William Heinemann, 1928, page 152.
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Leave off hoping to deserve well of anyone in any way
or thinking that anyone can be made grateful.
Everything is fruitless; to have acted kindly is nothing —
on the contrary, it is tiresome, tiresome or rather a nuisance;
as it is to me, whom nobody taxes more severely or bitterly
than he who only recently considered me his one and only friend.
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"[VII]. O mea Lesbia!" = "[VII]. O my Lesbia!"
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