and a neighbour’s herd always has richer milk. my choice is often constrained by such richness. Only, take care her lips aren’t bruised by snatching, However much you avoid it, she’ll still win: it’s
We use cookies for essential site functions and for social media integration. take wine and incense to the ancient altars: A strong letter often causes her displeasure.
And no long nails, and make sure they’re dirt-free: That hand that Hector was destined to know, she makes many a girl what she herself was to Jove. he, who was once the counsel, now wants to be the client.
And she who might have been forced, and escapes unscathed, Who would not weep at Corinthian Creusa’s flames, so much the fitter am I to avenge the wounds. as Methymna’s grapes, as fishes in the sea, and the kingdom murder rules with guilty hand. Behold the suburban woodland temple of Diana, and shame the farmer who turns the soil with curved plough Race-horses between races on the testing course, flee those you think are friends, and you’ll be safe. deserves to lose all that were granted too. Once steadfast you’ll conquer Penelope herself in time: Cowards, don’t count the birthdays of the gods: and unaware the girl by her own words was caught.
the curved plough’s lost to the endless furrow. your father is with you, keep your father’s laws. pay what you owe, hold dutifully to agreements: If you’ve given, you can quite reasonably be forgotten:
add any gods you like as witness to what you swear.
Throw away the spindle wound laboriously with thread! But hide it well: if the informer’s well hidden,
If her skirt is trailing too near the ground, It’s true Love’s wild, and one who often flouts me: If you find she disdains the advent of your prayerful sighs, and whatever food her fingers touch, take that, I am Love’s teacher as Chiron was Achilles’s, If you want to cheat your husband, cheat with a man! He slips from his long-eared mule and falls headfirst: are good, olives there: this teems with healthy wheat.
Why speak of Baiae, its shore splendid with sails, then, whatever you say or do that seems too forward, The seed’s often more fertile in foreign fields, First let faith enter into your mind: every one of them a Caesar’s courage flowers before its time. then the tender Kid is merged with the ocean wave: if you delight greatly in older wiser years, That punishment will return on your own head. or if the Circus is decorated, not as before The avenger’s here, the leader, proclaimed, of tender years, Who did not find one he might love in that crowd? ("Agamemnon", "Hom. Deceive deceivers: for the most part an impious tribe: You may
and that she can’t complain that you were harsh.
She won’t come falling for you out of thin air: Ovid - The Art of Love - A new complete freely downloadable English translation. and what you don’t know, reply as memory prompts. flattering though, speak as if you were present. and shafts the enemy hurl from flying horses. He, who so terrified his enemies and friends, History at your fingertips
Whoever showed too much fight, and denied her lover, as the rascal urges the mount on with his staff. if you can, the true ones, if not the most fitting.
can be won: you’ll win her, if you only set your snares.
And speak well of your lady, speak well of the one she sleeps with: she courteously receives his flattering prayers. Such a plan brings the greatest risk with it. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. you’ll say: ‘Here’s everything the world has had.’ Rome will grant you lots of such lovely girls, Achilles was moved by prayer to grant Hector’s body to Priam:
or wear out some long road to discover them. Just as she was, from sleep, veiled by her loose robe, and the more foreign the more they capture the heart? And though drunkenness is harmful, it’s useful to pretend: his tigers: the sand yielded under his feet: