Nay, not unyoked to wedlock's bed am I

Thus the marvellous Loeb translation of Aegeus' line from Euripides' Medea, οὐκ ἐσ μὲν εὐνῆς ἄζυγες γαμηλίου.
It would have served me so well in answering the status questions on internet dating services. What a wonderful double negative..."not unyoked"
Elsewhere chez Swain a beautiful woman researching erotic fiction leaned rather close to me by the photocopier.

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