Unconscionable Love,
To what extremes will you not drive our hearts!
Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!
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Compare | Σχέτλι᾽ Ἔρως, μέγα πῆμα, μέγα στύγος ἀνθρώποισιν,
ἐκ σέθεν οὐλόμεναί τ᾽ ἔριδες στοναχαί τε γόοι τε,
ἄλγεά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἀπείρονα τετρήχασιν. | Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills. | Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, IV, 445–447 (tr. E. V. Rieu)