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Horace: Book I, Ode 19 / "_Mater saeva Cupidinum_"
Venus, the cruel mother of / The Cupids (symbolising Love), / Bids me to muse upon and sigh / For things to which I've said "Good-bye!"
Believe me or believe me not, / I give this Glycera girl a lot: / Pure Parian marble are her arms -- / And she has eighty other charms.
Venus has left her Cyprus home / And will not let me pull a pome / About the Parthians, fierce and rough, / The Scythian war, and all that stuff.
Set up, O slaves, a verdant shrine!
Uncork a quart of last year's wine!
Place incense here, and here verbenas, / And watch me while I jolly Venus!