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.
Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.
Let's give the historians something to write about
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade