T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
To Aufilena
By Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84c. 54 B.C.)(Translated by George Lamb) I LIKE girls, Aufilena, of consciences nice, | |
For the favours they grant who are honestly paid; | |
But you, who have cheated, and taken the price | |
Of the love you withhold, are an infamous jade. | |
’Tis an honest girl’s part, what she’s promised, to do; | 5 |
’T were a modest one’s not to have promised the deed: | |
But she who can jilt, while she pockets like you | |
The money for favours she will not concede, | |
Commits a base fraud, which would shame and disgrace | |
The lowest and worst of the prostitute race. | 10 |