Let's give the historians something to write about
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.
If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.