🚀 go-pugleaf

Adrian Tan <astan@extro.ucc.su.oz.au> wrote in article
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> Christian P Richard wrote:
> > 
> > My friend wants "One True Love" in Latin as the inscription on a ring.
> > 
> >  One True Love
> > 
> > Could somebody please reply with a suitable Latin translation?
> 
> I haven't seen any responses yet, though it seems like a worthy cause.
> :-) How about this? -- "dilecta supra omnes", "cherished above (more
> than) all" (assuming that the beloved in question is female, and that
> "love" here does mean "person loved"). 
> 	I suppose part of the problem is that the phrase, and perhaps the whole
> notion of "true love", don't translate very well. I'm not sure that the
> usual words for one's "beloved" -- like "mea puella", "domina",
> "amores", "deliciae" -- have the right connotations.
> 

i'm just trying to decide what Ovid would say and how it could be dragged
out into an Elegiac Couplet....