Letter 6010: I wait for you, my love, venerable Dynamius,
IX
Ad Dynamium de Massilia
Expecto te, noster amor, venerande Dynami,
quamvis absentem quem mea cura videt.
quae loca te teneant venientia flabra requiro;
si fugias oculos, non fugis hinc animos.
Massiliae tibi regna placent, Germania nobis:
vulsus ab aspectu pectore iunctus ades.
quo sine te tua pars hucusque oblita remansit
nec revocas animo membra relicta tuo?
si sopor obrepsit, tibi me vel somnia narrent.
nam solet unianimes ipsa videre quies.
si vigilas, fateor, veniam tibi culpa negabit;
nil unde excuses desidiosus habes.
altera signiferi revolutis mensibus anni
solis anhelantes orbita lassat equos,
cum mea discedens rapuisti lumina tecum,
et modo nil sine te cerno patente die.
vel mihi verba dares de fonte refusa loquaci,
ut faceret tecum pagina missa loqui.
sed tamen ut tandem venias huc carius hortor,
et revocas oculis lumen, amice, meis.
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