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1  T-II|    life is modest, my Muse is playful –~and most of my work, deceptive
2  T-II| reader, in poetry.~No plot of playful Menander’s is free of love,~
3  T-IV|       who this ‘I’ was, ~this playful poet of tender passions
4   T-V|      Ah, why was my Muse ever playful?~But I pay the penalty,
5   ExI|      more than a few hours of playful fun.~Often hours of lengthy
6  IBIS|   acted as judge of the gods’ playful quarrel:~and as that man,
7   Ind| lightness (why was ‘my Muse’ ‘playful’, iocosa, in Ars Amatoria