LXXII.
To Lesbia the False.
Wont thou to vaunt whilòme of knowing only Catullus
(Lesbia!) nor to prefer Jupiter's self to myself.
Then, too, I loved thee well, not as vulgar wretch his mistress
But as a father his sons loves and his sons by the law.
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Now have I learnt thee aright; wherefor though burn I the hotter,
Lighter and viler by far thou unto me hast become.