“Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.”

—  Claudian

Paupertas me saeva domat dirusque Cupido:
sed toleranda fames, non tolerandus amor.
Epigram XV http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Carmina_Minora*/omnia.html#XV

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Paupertas me saeva domat dirusque Cupido:<br/>sed toleranda fames, non tolerandus amor.

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Claudian 11
Roman Latin poet 370–404

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