If there be any hope of my return, it is you must look to it, you that must strengthen it; but if, as I fear, the thing is done, then come to me.

If I can have you I shall not be altogether destroyed." No doubt these are wailings; but is a man unmanly because he so wails to the wife of his bosom?
Other humans have written prettily about women: it was common for Romans to do so.

Catullus desires from Lesbia as many kisses as are the stars of night or the sands of Libya.
Horace swears that he would perish for Chloe if Chloe might be left alive.

"When I am dying," says Tibullus to Delia, "may I be gazing at you; may my last grasp hold your hand." Propertius tells Cynthia that she stands to him in lieu of home and parents, and all the joys of life.
"Whether he be sad with his friends or happy, Cynthia does it all." The language in each case is perfect; but what other Roman was there of whom we have evidence that he spoke to his wife like this?
Ovid in his letters from his banishment says much of his love for his wife; but there is no passion expressed in anything that Ovid wrote.
Clodius, as soon as the enactment against Cicero became law, caused it be carried into effect with all its possible cruelties.

The criminal's property was confiscated.