Emma Scott Livingston / Metamorphoses 10.21
Furman University
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.21
Emma Scott Livingston / Metamorphoses 10.21
- Created on 2020-10-19 21:09:00
- Modified on 2020-10-23 14:17:57
- Translated by A. S. Kline (2013) (Left) and Robert Graves (1951) (right)
- Aligned by Emma Scott Livingston
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Then she gave me a lingering kiss , not the sort of kisses hurled about in brothels , the cash-seeking kisses of whores or the cash-denying ones from customers , but a pure one and sincere . And she spoke to me with tender affection : ‘I love you’ , ‘I want you , ’ ‘I desire you alone , ’ ‘I can’t live without you , ’ with all the other expressions women employ to inflame their lovers and declare their feelings .
Tunc exosculata pressule , non qualia in lupanari solent basiola iactari vel meretricum poscinummia vel adventorum negantinummia , sed pura atque sincera , instruit , et blandissimos affatus : " Amo , " et " Cupio , " et " Te solum diligo , " et " Sine te iam vivere nequeo , " et cetera quis mulieres et alios inducunt et suas testantur affectationes ;
After this she gave me a lingering kiss— not of the mercenary sort that one expects in a brothel , or from a whore picked up in the street or sent along by an agency , but a pure , sincere , really loving kiss . ‘Darling , ’ she cried , ‘I love you . You are all I want in this world . I could never live without you . ’ She added all the other pretty things that women say when they want men to share their own passionate feelings .