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Ovid. The Love Books of Ovid
INTRODUCTION
THE LOVES. BOOK I
ELEGY I.THE POET EXPLAINS HOW IT IS HE COMES TO SING OF LOVE INSTEAD OF BATTLES
ELEGY II. THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE
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
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
ELEGY V. HIS DELIGHT AT HAVING OBTAINED CORINNA’S FAVOURS
ELEGY VI. HE CONJURES THE PORTER TO OPEN THE DOOR OF HIS MISTRESS’S HOUSE
ELEGY VII. HE CURSES HIMSELF FOR HAVING MALTREATED HIS MISTRESS
ELEGY VIII. HE CURSES A CERTAIN OLD WOMAN OF THE TOWN WHOM HE OVERHEARS INSTRUCTING HIS MISTRESS IN THE ARTS OF A COURTESAN
ELEGY IX. HE COMPARETH LOVE WITH WAR
ELEGY X. HE ENDEAVOURS TO DISSUADE HIS MISTRESS FROM BECOMING A COURTESAN
ELEGY XI. HE ASKS NAPE TO DELIVER A LOVE-LETTER TO HER MISTRESS
ELEGY XII. HE CALLS DOWN CURSES ON THE TABLETS WHICH BRING HIM WORD OF HIS MISTRESS’S REFUSAL
ELEGY XIII. HE ENTREATS THE DAWN TO HASTEN NOT HER COMING
ELEGY XIV. TO HIS MISTRESS, WHO, CONTRARY TO HIS COUNSEL, DYED HER HAIR WITH NOXIOUS COMPOSITIONS, AND HAS NEARLY BECOME BALD
ELEGY XV. THE POETS ALONE ARE IMMORTAL
BOOK II. ELEGY I. HE TELLS WHEREFORE, INSTEAD OF THE WARS OF THE GIANTS, WHICH HE HAD COMMENCED, HE IS CONSTRAINED TO SING OF LOVE
ELEGY II. TO THE EUNUCH BAGOAS, BEGGING HIM TO GIVE HIM ACCESS TO THE FAIR ONE COMMITTED TO HIS CHARGE
ELEGY III. HE APPEALS ONCE MORE TO BAGOAS, WHO HAD PROVED INFLEXIBLE
ELEGY IV. HE CONFESSES HIS INCLINATION FOR LOVE AND HIS ADMIRATION FOR ALL MANNER OF WOMEN
ELEGY V. HE UPBRAIDS HIS MISTRESS WHOM HE HIS DETECTED ACTING FALSELY TOWARDS HIM
ELEGY VI. HE LAMENTS THE DEATH OF THE PARROT HE HAD GIVEN TO HIS MISTRESS
ELEGY VII. HE ASSURES CORINNA THAT HE HAS NEVER HAD ANY GUILTY COMMERCE WITH CYPASSIS, HER MAID
ELEGY VIII. HE ASKS CYPASSIS HOW IN THE WORLD CORINNA COULD HAVE FOUND THEM OUT
ELEGY IX. HE BESEECHES CUPID NOT TO DISCHARGE ALL HIS ARROWS AT HIM ALONE
ELEGY X. HE TELLS GRÆCINUS HOW, DESPITE WHAT HE SAYS TO THE CONTRARY, IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE IN LOVE WITH TWO WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME
ELEGY XI. HE SEEKS TO DISSUADE CORINNA FROM GOING TO BAIÆ
ELEGY XII. HE REJOICES AT HAVING AT LAST WON THE FAVOURS OF CORINNA
ELEGY XIII. HE BESEECHES ISIS TO COME TO THE AID OF CORINNA IN HER CONFINEMENT
ELEGY XIV. ON CORINNA’S RECOVERY HE WRITES TO HER AGAIN CONCERNING HER ATTEMPT AT ABORTION AND TELLS HER HOW NAUGHTY SHE HAS BEEN
ELEGY XV. TO THE RING WHICH HE IS SENDING TO HIS MISTRESS
ELEGY XVI. TO CORINNA, BESEECHING HER TO VISIT HIM IN HIS COUNTRY HOME AT SULMO
ELEGY XVII. HE COMPLAINS TO CORINNA THAT SHE IS TOO CONCEITED ABOUT HER GOOD LOOKS
ELEGY XVIII. TO MACER: TO WHOM HE EXCUSES HIMSELF FOR GIVING HIMSELF UP WHOLLY TO EROTIC VERSE
ELEGY XIX. TO A MAN WITH WHOSE WIFE HE WAS IN LOVE
BOOK III. ELEGY I. THE TRAGIC AND THE ELEGIAC MUSE STRIVE FOR THE POSSESSION OF OVID
ELEGY II. THE CIRCUS
ELEGY III. TO HIS MISTRESS, WHOM HE HAS FOUND TO BE FORSWORN
ELEGY IV. HE URGES A HUSBAND NOT TO KEEP SO STRICT A WATCH ON HIS WIFE
ELEGY V. A DREAM
ELEGY VI. TO A RIVER WHICH HAS OVERFLOWED ITS BANKS AND HINDERED THE POET, WHO WAS HASTENING TO HIS MISTRESS
ELEGY VII. THE POET REPROACHES HIMSELF FOR HAVING FAILED IN HIS DUTY TOWARDS HIS MISTRESS
ELEGY VIII. TO HIS MISTRESS, COMPLAINING THAT SHE HIS GIVEN PREFERENCE TO A WEALTHIER RIVAL
ELEGY IX. ON THE DEATH OF TIBULLUS
ELEGY X. HE COMPLAINS TO CERES THAT, DURING HER FESTIVAL, HE IS NOT SUFFERED TO SHARE HIS MISTRESS’ COUCH
ELEGY XI. WEARY AT LENGTH OF HIS MISTRESS’ INFIDELITIES, HE SWEARS THAT HE WILL LOVE HER NO LONGER
ELEGY XII. HE LAMENTS THAT HIS POEMS HAVE MADE HIS MISTRESS TOO WELL KNOWN
ELEGY XIII. THE FESTIVAL OF JUNO AT FALISCI
ELEGY XIV. TO HIS MISTRESS
ELEGY XV. HE BIDS FAREWELL TO HIS WANTON MUSE, TO COURT ONE, MORE AUSTERE
THE ART OF LOVE. BOOK I
BOOK II
BOOK III
LOVE’S CURE
THE ART OF BEAUTY
