ingenuus quisquam alterius dat munera servo, ut commissa suae verba ferat dominae? et quaerit totiens quaenam nunc porticus illam integit?et campo quo movet illa pedes? deinde, ubi pertuleris, quos dicit fama labores Herculis, ut scribat muneris ecquid habes? cernere uti possis vultum custodis amari, captus et immunda saepe latere casa? quam care semel in toto nox vertitur anno! ah pereant, si quos ianua clausa iuvat!.
Does any free-born man give bribes to anothers slave to carry a message to his mistress, and ask repeatedly What portico shades her now? and In what park does she wend her steps today? And then, when you have endured what rumour calls the labours of Hercules, to have her write Have you any present for me? or to win the privilege of facing a grim guardian and oft lying hidden, caught in a filthy hovel? How expensively does a night of joy come round but once in the whole year! A plague on those whom a closed door delights!
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