What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air..

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women….

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky..

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness..

Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale.

Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home an….

I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?.

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs..

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter..

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two..

What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oporte….

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream..

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so..