What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.

Dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.

Catullus

Carmina

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Trustworthiness of women

Author

Catullus

Source

Carmina

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

54 BC 50s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Empire

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Original Citation

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 70, l. 3.

Current Citation

Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 70, l. 3.

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Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

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