Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae

Would you call a girl "artichoke"? That's what Cynara means.

But I suppose if she was tasty, plump and a bit prickly.......



Seriously, the poem by Ernest Dowson, to which he gave that title (A quotation from Horace)
is one of my favourites. You will find it on Google.

"I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion", a famous line.

How many people have a "Cynara" in the past who keeps coming back to their minds?