Carmina

My life, you declare to me that this love of ours will be an everlasting joy between us. Great Gods! grant that she may promise truly, and say this in sincerity and from her soul, and that through all our lives we may be allowed to prolong together this bond of holy friendship.

Aufilena, good professional girls are always praised: they receive their pay for what they intend to do. Because you promised me—which was a lie—you are unprofessional; because you do not give and often bring [home the pay], you do wrong. Either to do it is honest, or not to have promised was chaste, Aufilena: but to steal what was given by deceiving, proves you worse than the greedy whore who prostitutes herself with her whole body.