I know what love is; and I know that when one is desired another cannot take her place.

But in a beautiful slave it is possible to find even momentary distraction." "I do not need it," said Vinicius.
But Petronius, who had for him a real weakness, and who wished to soften his pain, began to meditate how he might do so.
"Perhaps thine have not for thee the charm of novelty," said he, after a while (and here he began to look in turn at Iras and Eunice, and finally he placed his palm on the hip of the golden-haired Eunice).

"Look at this grace! for whom some days since Fonteius Capiton the younger offered three wonderful boys from Clazomene.

A more beautiful figure than hers even Skopas himself has not chiselled.

I myself cannot tell why I have remained indifferent to her thus far, since thoughts of Chrysothemis have not restrained me.