Then Apollo, learning the truth, smiled at human lot, and with his own lips reported to Jupiter the curse of jealousy, which, as it rejoices in other people's untoward fortunes, is unlucky enough the more gladly to desire its own harm also.
Tum sortem sapiens humanam risit Apollo,
invidiaeque malum rettulit ipse Iovi,
quae, dum proventis aliorum gaudet iniquis,
laetior infelix et sua damna cupit.
invidiaeque malum rettulit ipse Iovi,
quae, dum proventis aliorum gaudet iniquis,
laetior infelix et sua damna cupit.
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XXII. De Cupido et Invido ('The Greedy Man and the Jealous Man')