Diatribe historico-critica de Sapphus poetriae vita et scriptis

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Page 19 - Lesbiadum caetera turba juvant. Vilis Anactorie, vilis mihi Candida Cydno : Non oculis grata est Atthis, ut ante, meis : Atque aliae centum, quas non sine crimine amavi. Improbe, multarum quod fuit, unus habes.
Page 19 - ... present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Every trivial cause of pleasure is apt to affect the man of too sanguine a complexion: his appetite is too keen to suffer his taste to be delicate; and he is in all respects what Ovid says of himself in love, Molle meum levibus cor est violabile telis, Et semper causa est, cur ego semper amem.

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