GetPassage urn:cts:latinLit:phi0472.phi001.perseus-eng3:72.1-72.8 urn:cts:latinLit:phi0472.phi001.perseus-eng3:72.1-72.8

Wont thou to vaunt whilòme of, knowing only Catullus(Lesbia!) nor to prefer Jupiter's self to myself.Then, too, I loved thee well, not as vulgar wretch his mistressBut as a father his sons loves and his sons by the law.Now have I learnt thee aright; wherefor though burn I the hotter,Lighter and viler by far thou unto me hast become. "How can this be?" dost ask: 'tis that such injury everForces the hotter to love, also the less well to will.