"Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!"
— Aeneid

January 1, 1970

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Compare: — Σχέτλι᾽ Ἔρως, μέγα πῆμα, μέγα στύγος ἀνθρώποισιν, ἐκ σέθεν οὐλόμεναί τ᾽ ἔριδες στοναχαί τε γόοι τε, ἄλγεά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἀπείρονα τετρήχασιν. — Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills. — Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.445 (tr. E. V. Rieu)