Marcus Argentarius Quotes
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Marcus Argentarius (fl. c. AD 60) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Roman period.
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That is not love if one, trusting his judicious eyes, wishes to possess a beauty. But he who seeing a homely face is pierced by the arrows and loves, set alight by fury of the heart—that is love, that is fire; for beauty delights equally all who are good judges of form.
You fell in love, Sosicrates, when rich; now you are poor, you are in love no longer. What an admirable cure is hunger! And Menophila, who used to call you her sweety and her darling Adonis, now asks your name. “What man are you, and whence, your city where?”* You have perforce learnt the meaning of the saying, “None is the friend of him who has nothing.”