Amoris ignes si sentires mulio,
magi properares, ut uideris Venerem.
diligo iuuenem uenustum. rogo, punge, iamus.
bibisti: iamus. prende lora et excute,
Pompeios defer, ubi dulcis est amor.
meus es

J. Novák sets lines 1-2, 4-5

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Confirmed with Franz Bücheler, Carmina latina epigraphica, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, Pages 22-23.

Note: an inscription from Pompeii.

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