Nulla potest mulier tantum se dicere amatam
    Vere, quantum a me Lesbia amata [mea es]1:
Nulla fides ullo fuit umquam in foedere tanta
    Quanta in amore tuo ex parte reperta mea est.

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¹ Orff: "mea'st"

Text Authorship:

• by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 87 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Michael Linton , "Nulla potest mulier", first performed 2014 [ baritone and piano ], from Carmina Catulli, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]

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• by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "[XII]. Nulla potest mulier tantum se dicere amatam ", 1940-43, published 1943, from cantata Catulli Carmina, no. 13
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