“I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.”

— Martial , book Epigrammata

I, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, / The reason why I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full well, / I do not love thee, Doctor Fell", Tom Brown, Laconics.
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Martial 31

Latin poet from Hispania 40–104

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