1 point by TomF almost 7 years ago | link"lasting/everlasting": nor should Lydia hope ("speres," potential (?) subj.) that one harming ("laedentem") her sweet lips ("oscula") barbarically <would be> hers forever (lit., "everlasting"). "Sperare" is a "head" verb and so followed by the acc. and inf. of oratio obliqua. | 
