MART. LIB. I. EPI. 14.
Casta suo gladium cum traderet Arria Paeto,
Quem de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis;
Si qua fides, vulnus quod feci non dolet, inquit:
Sed quod tu facies, hoc mihi, Paete, dolet.
ENGLISHED.
When brave chast Arria to her Poetus gave
The sword from her own breast did bleeding wave:
If there be faith, this wound smarts not, said she;
But what you'l make, ah, that will murder me.
More verses by Richard Lovelace
- Ad Juvencium. Cat. Ep. 49.
- Ausonius
- A Fly Caught In A Cobweb
- Ad Quintium. Cat. Ep. 83
- Ad Sylonem. Ep. 104.