Hostis si quis erit nobis, amet ille puellas:
gaudeat in puero, si quis amicus erit.
Tranquillo tuta descendis flumine cumba:
quid tibi tam parvi litoris unda nocet?
Alter saepe uno mutat praecordia verbo,
altera vix ipso sanguine mollis erit.
--Propertius, Elegies II.4.16-22
Whatever kind of relationship I'm in now, it's completely baffled me.
Whoever is into girls is my enemy now;
whoever is into guys, is now my friend.
Safely a gay man meanders down the tranquil streams of love,
what harm can such meager waves harm you?
A boyfriend can often change his mind with a single word,
but a girlfriend can scarcely change her feelings even when paid in your blood.
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Name: Sextus Propertius
Date: 50 – 15 BCE
Works: Elegies
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Propertius was an Italian-born Roman lyric
poet whose love poetry provides insight into the mores of Augustan Rome.
Like Catullus and Tibullus, Propertius used a pseudonym for the object of his
attention; many of his love poems were addressed to “Cynthia.”
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GOLDEN AGE ROME
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