"Caverit haec custos, pro charta conscia tergum Praebeat, inque suo corpore verba ferat."
— Ars Amatoria

January 1, 1970

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Let your confidante make her shoulders your tablets, and let her body become a living letter. — Book III, line 626 (tr. J. Lewis May) — Variant translation: "Let the confidant offer her back for your note, and bear your words upon her body." (J. H. Mozley)