Sulpicia 3.13

Question 1

Tandem venit amor, qualem texisse pudori

quam nudasse alicui sit mihi fama magis.

Answer 1

At last the love has come, which there would be

More disgrace for me to have hidden through shame than to have exposed to someone.

Question 2

Exorata meis illum Cytherea Camenis

adtulit in nostrum deposuitque sinum.

Answer 2

Having been prayed to by my Muses

The Cytherean has brought that man and deposited him in my lap.

Question 3

Exsolvit promissa Venus: mea gaudia narret,

dicetur siquis non habuisse sua.

Answer 3

Venus has fulfilled her promises; if anyone might be said not to have had their own joys
Let her report my joys to them.

Question 4

Non ego signatis quicquam mandare tabellis,

ne legat id nemo quam meus ante, velim,

Answer 4

I would not want to entrust anyone with sealed tablets

In case someone might read it before my man.

Question 5

sed peccasse iuvat, vultus conponere famae

taedet: cum digno digna fuisse ferar.

Answer 5

But it pleases me to have stepped out of line – it wearies me
I will be reported to have been worthy with someone worthy.