Quid mihi tam multas laudando, Basse, puellas mutatum domina cogis abire mea? quid me non pateris vitae quodcumque sequetur hoc magis assueto ducere servitio? tu licet Antiopae formam Nycteidos, et tu Spartanae referas laudibus Hermionae, et quascumque tulit formosi temporis aetas; Cynthia non illas nomen habere sinat: nedum, si levibus fuerit collata figuris, inferior duro iudice turpis eat.
Why, Bassus, by praising so many other girls do you press me to change and forsake my mistress? Why do you not rather let me spend whatever time I have left to live in bondage I have grown used to? Though your praises recall the loveliness of Antiope, Nycteus child, and of Spartan Hermione, and all the women the years of the age of beauty produced: Cynthia would make their glory pale. Much less, if compared with trivial beauties, need she fear the disgrace of being pronounced inferior even by a fastidious judge.
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