vocer

Updated: July 29, 2026

In no poet, not even in Burns, is simple, natural emotion more naturally expressed. If we cannot praise the character of the man, we must admire the graceful poet. Nothing can give a truer picture of affection than the following tender and exquisitely musical lines: "Non ego laudari curo: mea Delia, tecum Dummodo sim quaeso segnis inersque vocer.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius