Dreams of Kisses: A Pompeiian Woman’s
Lament
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Name: Unknown Date: prior to 79 CE Region: Regio IX in Pompeii [modern Italy] Citation: CIL
4.5296 |
If only I could hold you
In my arms
And kiss your tender lips!
Go now, baby doll,
Entrust your happiness to
the winds!
Trust me, the nature of
men is fickle.
For often when I am lying
awake
In the middle of the
night,
I am undone
As I think to myself how
Fortune dashes down
Those
she had just recently lifted up.
Dreams of Kisses: A
Pompeiian Woman’s Lament
O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere
Braciola et teneris oscula ferre labellis
I nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede
Crede mihi levis est natura virorum
Saepe ego cum media vigilarem perdita nocte
haec mecum meditans: multos Fortuna quos sustulit
alte
hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque
premit.
