Lygdamus

 (probably a pseudonym) was a Roman poet who wrote love poems in. Six of his elegies, addressed to a girl named Neaera, are preserved in the Appendix Tibulliana alongside the apocryphal works of Tibullus.

Quotes

 * Carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae: gaudeat, ut digna est, versibus ilia novis.
 * Poetry is the lure for the beautiful, gold for the greedy: so let there be new verses to gladden her [Neaera] as she deserves.
 * I, 7 (tr. F. W. Cornish)


 * A crudele genus nec fidum femina nomen! a pereat, didicit fallere si qua virum.
 * O cruel sex! Woman a treacherous race! Away with her who has learned to play her husband false!
 * IV, 61 (tr. F. W. Cornish)


 * Nescis quid sit amor, iuvenis, si ferre recusas immitem dominam coniugiumque ferum.
 * Young sir, thou knowest not what is love if thou dost shrink to bear with a cruel mistress and ungentle wife.
 * IV, 73 (tr. F. W. Cornish)


 * Ei mihi, difficile est imitari gaudia falsa, difficile est tristi fingere mente iocum.
 * Ah me! mock joys are hard to make; 'tis hard to feign merriment when the heart is sad.
 * VI, 33 (tr. F. W. Cornish)