Afflicted by love’s madness all are blind.
[Scilicet insano nemo in amore videt.]
Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 2, Elegy 14, l. 18ff (2.14.18) [ed. Harbottle (1906)]
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Propertius - Elegies, Book 2, Elegy 14, l. 18ff (2.14.18) [ed. Harbottle (1906)] | WIST Quotations
Afflicted by love’s madness all are blind. [Scilicet insano nemo in amore videt.] (Source (Latin)). Other translations: And surely no one sees when love his senses steals away. [tr. Cranstoun (1875); 3.WIST Quotations
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