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Heathcote William Garrod, comp. (1878–1960). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. 1912.

Sextus Propertius c.50 B.C.–c.16 B.C.

Cynthia will one day be but Dust and Ashes

SCRIBANT de te alii uel sis ignota licebit:

laudet, qui sterili semina ponit humo.

omnia, crede mihi, tecum uno munera lecto

auferet extremi funeris atra dies;

et tua transibit contemnens ossa uiator

nec dicet ‘Cinis hic docta puella fuit’.