The Love Books of Ovid

THE LOVE BOOKS OF OVID TRANSLATED OUT OF THE LATIN BY J. LEWIS MAY THE LOVE BOOKS OF OVID Table of Contents THE LOVE BOOKS OF OVID...............................................................................................................................1 TRANSLATED OUT OF THE LATIN BY J. LEWIS MAY.......................................................................1 THE LOVE BOOKS OF OVID...............................................................................................................................3 TRANSLATED OUT OF THE LATIN BY J. LEWIS MAY.......................................................................3 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................................3 I.....................................................................................................................................................................3 II....................................................................................................................................................................5 III...................................................................................................................................................................8 IV................................................................................................................................................................11 EPIGRAM...................................................................................................................................................12 ELEGY I: THE POET EXPLAINS HOW IT IS HE COMES TO SING OF LOVE INSTEAD OF BATTLES...................................................................................................................................................12 ELEGY II: THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE.....................................................................................................12 ELEGY III: HE COMMENDS HIMSELF TO HIS MISTRESS BY THE MERITS OF HIS POETRY, THE PURITY OF HIS MORALS, AND BY THE VOW OF HIS UNCHANGEABLE FIDELITY...................................................................................................................................................13 ELEGY IV: OVID, HIS MISTRESS AND HER HUSBAND ARE ALL BIDDEN TO THE SAME SUPPER. HE GIVES HIS MISTRESS, A CODE BY WHICH THEY CAN TESTIFY THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER, BENEATH HER HUSBAND'S VERY EYES...........................................13 ELEGY V: HIS DELIGHT AT HAVING OBTAINED CORINNA'S FAVOURS..................................15 ELEGY VI. HE CONJURES THE PORTER TO OPEN THE DOOR OF HIS MISTRESS'S HOUSE.......................................................................................................................................................15 ELEGY VII:................................................................................................................................................16 ELEGY VIII: HE CURSES A CERTAIN OLD WOMAN OF THE TOWN WHOM HE OVERHEARS INSTRUCTING HIS MISTRESS IN THE ARTS OF A COURTESAN.........................17 ELEGY IX: HE COMPARETH LOVE WITH WAR................................................................................18 ELEGY X. HE ENDEAVOURS TO DISSUADE HIS MISTRESS FROM BECOMING A COURTESAN.............................................................................................................................................19 ELEGY XI: HE ASKS NAPE TO DELIVER A LOVE−LETTER TO HER MISTRESS........................20 ELEGY XII: HE CALLS DOWN CURSES ON THE TABLETS WHICH BRING HIM WORD OF HIS MISTRESS'S REFUSAL....................................................................................................................20 ELEGY XIII: HE ENTREATS THE DAWN TO HASTEN NOT HER COMING..................................21 ELEGY XIV: TO HIS MISTRESS, WHO, CONTRARY TO HIS COUNSEL, DYED HER HAIR WITH NOXIOUS COMPOSITIONS, AND HAS NEARLY BECOME BALD......................................21 ELEGY XV: THE POETS ALONE ARE IMMORTAL...........................................................................22 BOOK II...................................................................................................................................................................23 ELEGY I: HE TELLS WHEREFORE, INSTEAD OF THE WARS OF THE GIANTS, WHICH HE HAD COMMENCED, HE IS CONSTRAINED TO SING OF LOVE.....................................................23 ELEGY II: TO THE EUNUCH BAGOAS, BEGGING HIM TO GIVE HIM ACCESS TO THE FAIR ONE COMMITTED TO HIS CHARGE..........................................................................................24 ELEGY III: HE APPEALS ONCE MORE TO BAGOAS, WHO HAD PROVED INFLEXIBLE..........25 ELEGY IV: HE CONFESSES HIS INCLINATION FOR LOVE AND HIS ADMIRATION FOR ALL MANNER OF WOMEN....................................................................................................................25 ELEGY V: HE UPBRAIDS HIS MISTRESS WHOM HE HIS DETECTED ACTING FALSELY TOWARDS HIM........................................................................................................................................26 ELEGY VI: HE LAMENTS THE DEATH OF THE PARROT HE HAD GIVEN TO HIS MISTRESS..................................................................................................................................................26 i THE LOVE BOOKS OF OVID Table of Contents THE LOVE BOOKS OF OVID ELEGY VII: HE ASSURES CORINNA THAT HE HAS NEVER HAD ANY GUILTY COMMERCE WITH CYPASSIS, HER MAID.........................................................................................27 ELEGY VIII HE ASKS CYPASSIS HOW IN THE WORLD CORINNA COULD HAVE FOUND THEM OUT................................................................................................................................................28 ELEGY IX HE BESEECHES CUPID NOT TO DISCHARGE ALL HIS ARROWS AT HIM ALONE.......................................................................................................................................................28 ELEGY X HE TELLS GRAECINUS HOW, DESPITE WHAT HE SAYS TO THE CONTRARY, IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE IN LOVE WITH TWO WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME...............................29 ELEGY XI HE SEEKS TO DISSUADE CORINNA FROM GOING TO BAIAE...................................30 ELEGY XII. HE REJOICES AT HAVING AT LAST WON THE FAVOURS OF CORINNA..............30 ELEGY XIII. HE BESEECHES ISIS TO COME TO THE AID OF CORINNA IN HER CONFINEMENT........................................................................................................................................31 ELEGY XIV. ON CORINNA'S RECOVERY HE WRITES TO HER AGAIN CONCERNING HER ATTEMPT AT ABORTION AND TELLS HER HOW NAUGHTY SHE HAS BEEN..........................31 ELEGY XV. TO THE RING WHICH HE IS SENDING TO HIS MISTRESS........................................32 ELEGY XVI. TO CORINNA, BESEECHING HER TO VISIT HIM IN HIS COUNTRY HOME AT SULMO.......................................................................................................................................................32 ELEGY XVII. HE COMPLAINS TO CORINNA THAT SHE IS TOO CONCEITED ABOUT HER GOOD LOOKS...........................................................................................................................................33 ELEGY XVIII. TO MACER: TO WHOM HE EXCUSES HIMSELF FOR GIVING HIMSELF UP WHOLLY TO EROTIC VERSE................................................................................................................34 ELEGY XIX. TO A MAN WITH WHOSE WIFE HE WAS IN LOVE...................................................34 BOOK III....................................................................................................................................................35 ELEGY I. THE TRAGIC IND THE ELEGIAC MUSE STRIVE FOR THE POSSESSION OF OVID...........................................................................................................................................................36 ELEGY II. THE CIRCUS...........................................................................................................................37 ELEGY III. TO HIS MISTRESS, WHOM HE HAS FOUND TO BE FORSWORN...............................38 ELEGY IV. HE URGES A HUSBAND NOT TO KEEP SO STRICT A WATCH ON HIS WIFE.........38 ELEGY V. A DREAM...............................................................................................................................39 ELEGY VI. TO A RIVER WHICH HAS OVERFLOWED ITS BANKS AND HINDERED THE POET, WHO WAS HASTENING TO HIS MISTRESS...........................................................................40 ELEGY VII. THE POET REPROACHES HIMSELF FOR HAVING FAILED IN HIS DUTY TOWARDS HIS MISTRESS.....................................................................................................................41 ELEGY VIII. TO HIS MISTRESS, COMPLAINING THAT SHE HIS GIVEN PREFERENCE TO A WEALTHIER RIVAL............................................................................................................................42 ELEGY IX. ON THE DEATH OF TIBULLUS.........................................................................................43 ELEGY X. HE COMPLAINS TO CERES THAT, DURING HER FESTIVAL, HE IS NOT SUFFERED TO SHARE HIS MISTRESS' COUCH.................................................................................44 ELEGY XI WEARY AT LENGTH OF HIS MISTRESS' INFIDELITIES, HE SWEARS THAT HE WILL LOVE HER

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