Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Yes No Maybe So

成都 (Chéngdū), China. August 2012. Photo: Mado Flynn.

Scripsi, rescripsit nil Naevia, non dabit ergo.
Sed puto quod scripsi legerat: ergo dabit.

I wrote, she wrote not back; so won’t fulfil.
Yet, what I wrote, she read; and therefore will.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 2, IX
English translation by James Elphinston

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