uxor wife

Uxor, vivamus, quod viximus, et teneamus nomina, quae primo sumpsimus in thalamo: nec ferat ulla dies, ut commutemur in aevo; quin tibi sim iuvenis tuque puella mihi. [Epigrammata, XL, Ad Uxorem, 1)Compare Wife, let us live as we have lived, and keep calling each other by the names we first used when we married. May the day never come that we should change, may I always be your young man, and you my girl.

Uxore profecta, vir relictus est solus.Compare When his wife departed, the man was left alone.

Linquenda tellus et domus et placens uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum te prater invisas cupressos ulla brevem dominum sequetor.Compare The earth we need must leave, and house and wife of our choice; nor of the trees which you tend shall any save the hated cypresses go along with their short-lived master.

Si sine uxore pati possemus, Quirites, omnes ea molestia careremus; sed quoniam ita natura tradidit, ut nec cum illis satis commode, nec sine illis ullo modo vivi possit, saluti perpetuae potius quam brevi voluptati consulendum.Compare Could we dispense with wives, Romans, we would have one nuisance less. However, since nature has decreed that we cannot live comfortably with them and without them not at all, we should look rather to our long-term welfare than to our short-term pleasure. [Quotation from a speech by Quintus Metellus Numidicus, consul 109 B.C.]

Cum sitis similes paresque vita, uxor pessima, pessimus maritus, miror non bene convenire vobis.Compare Seeing that you are like one another, and a pair in your habits, vilest of wives, vilest of husbands, I wonder you don't agree!

Uxor deinde is ac liberi amplector.Compare Then his wife and his children embraced him.

Odisse coepi, postquam parricida matris et uxoris, auriga et histrio et incendiarius extitisti.Compare I began to hate you when you became the murderer of your mother and your wife, a charioteer, an actor, and an incendiary.