| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | To Aufilena | | By Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
| | (Translated by George Lamb)
I LIKE girls, Aufilena, of consciences nice, | |
| For the favours they grant who are honestly paid; | |
| But you, who have cheated, and taken the price | |
| Of the love you withhold, are an infamous jade. | |
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| ’Tis an honest girl’s part, what she’s promised, to do; | 5 |
| ’T were a modest one’s not to have promised the deed: | |
| But she who can jilt, while she pockets like you | |
| The money for favours she will not concede, | |
| Commits a base fraud, which would shame and disgrace | |
| The lowest and worst of the prostitute race. | 10 | | | |
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