"Cantet, amat quod quisque: levant et carmina curas."
— Nemesianus

January 1, 1970

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The device of a refrain follows the examples in Theocritus, Idylls I and II, and Virgil, Eclogue VIII. It is effectively used in the trochaics of the Pervigilium Veneris: cras amet qui numquam amavit; quique amarit cras amet.