Catullus: Poem 70

dicit mulier mea

My woman says

nulli se ... nubere malle

[that] she prefers to marry no one

quam mihi,

but me,

non si se Iuppiter ipse petat.

not [even] if Jupiter himself were to ask her.

dicit:

[That's what] she says:

sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,

but what a woman says to [her] passionate lover

scribere oportet

ought to be written

in vento et rapida ... aqua.

in the wind and in fast-flowing water.