Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Smithers, Leonard Charles, prose translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

Aufilena, good professional girls are always praised: they receive their pay for what they intend to do. Because you promised me—which was a lie—you are unprofessional; because you do not give and often bring [home the pay], you do wrong. Either to do it is honest, or not to have promised was chaste, Aufilena: but to steal what was given by deceiving, proves you worse than the greedy whore who prostitutes herself with her whole body.