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Hail, girl with nose not the smallest, and with foot not lovely, and with eyes
not black, and with fingers not long, and with mouth not dry and with tongue not
so very elegant, the wench of the bankrupt Formian. And the province declares
you to be lovely? With you our Lesbia is to be compared? O generation witless
and unmannerly!
Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers. London. Smithers. 1894.
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