"Lesbia mi dicit semper male."
Lesbia's always speaking ill
Of me--her tongue is never still:
Yet may I die, but 'gainst her will,
She loves me, spite of her detraction.
Why think I so? Because I blame
Her ways, abuse her just the same:
Yet howsoe'er I name her name,
I still love Lesbia to distraction.
GRATIAN.--Perhaps the constancy was more to the credit of Lesbia than
Catullus. Now then, Aquilius.