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Saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala
(Dux ego vester eram) vidi cum matre legentem.
Alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus,
Iam fragilis poteram a terra contingere ramos:
Ut vidi, ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error!
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In our orchard I saw you picking dewy apples with your mother (I was showing you the way). I had just turned twelve years old, I could reach the brittle branches even from the ground: how I saw you! how I fell in love! how an awful madness swept me away!
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Book VIII, lines 37-41
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Variant translation: I beheld you in your childhood, (for I was your guide) together with your mother, picking dewy apples in our hedges. I was at that time just twelve years old; and I could hardly reach from the ground the brittle branches. How did I gaze, how was I undone, how did a fatal bewilderment seize me!

 
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