90 vertet in offensas libera verba suas. seu memor ille mea contentus manserit umbra et tanti cineres duxerit esse meos, 95 quod mihi detractum est, vestros accedat ad annos: prole mea Paullum sic iuvet esse senem. 100 et bene habet: numquam mater lugubria sumpsi: causa perorata est. flentes me surgite, testes, 93. sentire O lenire Schrader. 102. aquis NFLV2 equis DV avis Heinsius. 90. vertet in: 'will interpret them to imply.' sen 93. nunc: with sentire. tire to realize'; cf. Ovid, A. A. 3,59: venturae memores iam nunc estote senectae. 94. nec vacet ulla via : 'and leave him no access.' 95. quod sc. tempus. Cf. Tib. 1, 6, 63: proprios ego tecum, sit modo fas, annos contribuisse velim. 96. prole mea: a Propertian abl. The idea is essentially causal, however the grammar is to be explained. — sic: i.e. if you are so spared to comfort him. 97. bene habet: 'I am content.' lugubria sumpsi: put on mourning.' P. OVIDI NASONIS AMORVM LIBER PRIMVS EPIGRAMMA IPSIVS Qui modo Nasonis fueramus quinque libelli, tres sumus: hoc illi praetulit auctor opus; ut iam nulla tibi nos sit legisse voluptas, at levior demptis poena duobus erit. I Arma gravi numero violentaque bella parabam edere, materia conveniente modis; AMORES Epigramma Ipsius: there is no reason to doubt the genuineness of this epigram thus prefixed to the first book of the Amores. - Nasonis: Ovid is fond of calling himself by his cognomen; cf. Am. 2, 1, 2; Trist. 5, 13, 1; etc. quinque an earlier edition of the Amores was published in five books. Ovid later withdrew some of his more youthful efforts from circulation and published the existing edition in three books. Cf. Cicero's change of plan in the Academica. - libelli: a term of modesty. hoc illi: the present to the earlier.'-ut: even if.' legisse cf. Tib. 1, 1, 29, n. 66 I, I 1-4: 'I essayed heroic strains, but Cupid drove me to elegy. 5-20: Who gave you the right to interfere?" I complained, "let every cobbler stick to his last." 21-26: But he drew his unerring bow at me, and now love rules my heart; 2730: so elegy is my province.' Cf. 2, I, II sqq.; Prop. 3, 3. 1. gravi numero: the hexameter; cf. modis (v. 2) (of the melody) and inferior versus (v. 3) (i.e. the second of a couplet) for a variety of expression of the general idea. 2. edere: 'to produce.' 5 10 15 par erat inferior versus: risisse Cupido dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem. quid, si praeripiat flavae Venus arma Minervae, quis probet in silvis Cererem regnare iugosis, crinibus insignem quis acuta cuspide Phoebum sunt tibi magna, puer, nimiumque potentia regna: an, quod ubique, tuum est? tua sunt Heliconia Tempe? |