Note 24 — Chapter I
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Sit mihi verna satur, sit non doctissima conjux. Epigrammata, Lib. II, 90.
Martial's taste in this respect was the same as that of Heine, who said of the woman he loved: "She has never read a line of my writings and does not even know what a poet is," and the same as that of Rousseau, who declared that his last flame, Therèse Lavasseur, could not tell the time of day.