post ista propinquum nunc iter optandosque sinus comes ire moraris? heu ubi nota fides totque explorata per usus, qua veteres, Latias Graias, heroidas aequas? isset ad Iliacas (quid enim deterret amantes?) Penelope gavisa domos, si passus Ulixes; questa est Aegiale, questa est Meliboea relinqui, et quam tam saevi fecerunt maenada planctus.
After all this are you now delaying a short journey, to go with me to the delightful bay? Alas! where is your familiar loyalty, proven in so many trials, that puts you alongside the ancient heroines of Latium and Greece? Penelope would gladly have gone to the dwellings of Ilium (for what do lovers fear?) if Ulysses had suffered it. Aegiale made moan to be left behind, and Meliboea, and she whom cruel lamentation made Maenad;
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