Me voces audire juvat sua gaudia fassas:
Utque morer memet, sustineamque roget.
Aspiciam dominse victos amends ocellos.
Langueat; et tangi se vetet ilia diu.
Those advantages has nature given not to early youth, which are wont to spring up soon after seven times five years [987] have passed. Those who are in a hurry, let them drink of new wine; for me let the cask, stored up in the times [988] of ancient Consuls, pour forth the wine of my ancestors. No plane-tree but a mature one is able to withstand Phoebus; the shooting grass, [989] too, hurts the tender feet. And could you, forsooth, have preferred Hermione [990] to Helen? And was Gorge [991] more attractive than her mother? Whoever you are that wish to enjoy matured passion, if you only persevere, you will obtain a fitting reward.
Conscius ecce duos accepit lectus amantes:
Ad thalami clausas, Musa, résisté fores.
Sponte suâ, sine te, celoberrima verba loquentur:
Nec manus in lecto læva jacebit iners.
Invenient digiti, quod agant in partibus illis,