Paper, I would like you say to that sweet poet, my comrade, Caecilius, that he
come to Verona, quitting New Comum's
city-walls and Larius' shore; for I want him to receive certain thoughts from a
friend of his and mine. Therefore, if he is wise, he'll devour the way, although
a bright-hued girl a thousand times calls him back when he goes, and flinging
both arms around his neck asks him to delay—she who now, if truth is
reported to me, is undone with immoderate love of him. For, since the time she
read the beginning of his Mistress of Dindymus, flames have been
devouring the innermost marrow of the poor little girl. I forgive you, girl,
more learned than the Sapphic muse: for charmingly has the Great Mother been
begun by Caecilius.
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