"Nec dominam iubeo pretioso munere dones: Parva, sed e parvis callidus apta dato."
— Ars Amatoria

January 1, 1970

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Nor do I bid you give your mistress costly gifts; let them be small, but choose your small gifts cunningly and well. — Book II, line 261 (tr. J. H. Mozley)