When I try to express, Pamphila, the care in my heart for you

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by Valerius Aedituus (flourished 2^nd cent. BCE)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Dicere cum conor curam tibi, Pamphila,...

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG

Dicere cum conor curam tibi, Pamphila, cordis,
    quid mi abs te quaeram, verba labris abeunt,
per pectus manat subito subido mihi sudor:
    sic tacitus, subidus, dum pudeo, pereo.

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Confirmed with Willy Morel, Ed., Fragmenta poetarum latinorum epicorum et lyricorum praeter Ennium et Lucilium, Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1927, Page 42.

Text Authorship:

by Valerius Aedituus (flourished 2^nd cent. BCE), no title [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 Jan Novák (1921 - 1984), "Dicere cum conor", from Cantica latina, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 28

When I try to express, Pamphila, the...

Language: English after the Latin

When I try to express, Pamphila, the care in my heart for you,
   What shall I ask of you? Words desert my lips.
Sweat at once flows down my burning breast.
   Thus silenced, I seethe; while I am abashed, I am lost.

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Translations of titles:
"Dicere cum conor" = "When I try to express"

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a text in Latin by Valerius Aedituus (flourished 2^nd cent. BCE), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2025-10-05
Line count: 4
Word count: 42