"Ei mihi, difficile est imitari gaudia falsa, difficile est tristi fingere mente iocum."
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Ah me! mock joys are hard to make; 'tis hard to feign merriment when the heart is sad. — VI, 33 (tr. J. P. Postgate)
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Lygdamus
(probably a pseudonym) was a Roman poet who wrote love poems in . Six of his elegies, addressed to a girl named Neaera, are preserved in the Appendix Tibulliana alongside the apocryphal works of Tibullus.
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