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“Believe me, it is true: going hence, I seem a swimmer, but, when I return, a shipwrecked man.”

Ovid (spoken by Leander)

Heroides, Letter XVIII (Leander to Hero), trans. Grant Showerman (1914)

Leander describes swimming the Hellespont eagerly toward Hero and wearily back to Abydos.

Citation: "Believe me, it is true: going hence, I seem a swimmer, but, when I return, a shipwrecked man." — Ovid, Heroides, Letter XVIII (Leander to Hero), trans. Grant Showerman (1914). (id ovid-heroides-q7)

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