Sulpicia Elegiae

Tibullus

Sulpicia (attributed author). Six Poems. Mahoney, Anne, translator.

  1. My family are concerned I might lose out
  2. to the affections of an unknown's bed.
  1. Cerinthus, do you care that I am sick,
  2. my body wracked with fever and fatigue?
  3. I cannot hope that I'll be well again
  4. unless I think that that's what you want too.
  5. But if my sickness doesn't worry you,
  6. what good is it to me to be well again?