The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin by Natalie Harwood

Author:Natalie Harwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.

Now I come to the little note written across the end of your letter, in which you warn me about your sister. This is how it is. I have seen nothing so gentle, nothing so pleasing as my brother was at that time to your sister. … On the next day, we set out from Arpinum. A festival made Quintus remain in Arcanum, I in Aquinum, but we dined in Arcanum. You know this place. As we arrived there, Quintus said most politely, “Pomponia, you invite the women, I will invite the men.” Nothing was able, as indeed it seemed to me, to be sweeter with words as well as in intention and countenance. But she, while we were listening, said, “I am myself a guest here” … because Statius had gone ahead to prepare dinner for us. Then Quintus said to me “Oh, I suffer these things daily.” You’ll say, “What, if you please, was the problem?” Much; and so she upset me, too; so absurdly and harshly she had responded with words and countenance. Sadly, I pretended otherwise. We all reclined except her, to whom nevertheless Quintus sent a tray. She refused it. What more? Nothing seemed to me more kind than my brother, nothing more harsh than your sister; and I omit a lot … Quintus remained in Arcanum and on the next morning came to me at Aquinum and told me that she had refused to sleep with him.

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